Chamber and committees

The Scottish Executive Fuel Poverty Forum met on 7 July 2005 and the provisional date for the next meeting is 23 August 2005.

Integration of cross-curricular issues such as sustainable development will be considered in the next phase of the curriculum review. Sustainable development is a key component of the School Estate Strategy in Scotland.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

The central heating programme is a demand-led scheme with eligibility determined against a set of published criteria. Every applicant to the central heating programme, who is found to be eligible for support, has been offered a grant.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

The warm deal programme is a demand-led scheme with eligibility determined against a set of published criteria. Every applicant to the warm deal programme, who is found to be eligible for support, has been offered a grant.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

The total expenditure on the central heating programme from April 2001 to March 2004 is £96.163 million, inclusive of the managing agent fees in the private sector. The table below shows the number of properties benefiting from central heating systems, across all sectors, from April 2001 to March 2004. As the figures for 2004-05 are not yet complete they have not been included.

Properties Benefiting from Central Heating Systems April 2001 to March 2004

Programme Year	No. of Properties Treated
2001–02	8,508
2002–03	11,220
2003–04*	17,591
Total	37,319

*Note: This figure includes 803 local authority properties treated with partial central heating upgrades.

I have asked Angiolina Foster, Chief Executive of Communities Scotland, to respond. Her response is as follows:

The total expenditure on the warm deal programme from April 1999 to March 2004 was £52.228 million, inclusive of the managing agent fees for warm deal in the private sector, and expenditure on the 1999 Home Energy Efficiency Scheme and New Energy Efficiency Deal for Scotland (NEEDS) schemes that were a precursor to the warm deal programme. The table below shows the number of properties benefiting from warm deal grants from April 1999 to March 2004. As the figures for 2004-05 are not yet complete they have not been included.

Properties Benefiting from Warm Deal Grant April 1999 to March 2004

Programme Year	No. of Properties Treated
1999–20001	47,085
2000–01	49,215
2001–02	40,877
2002–03	30,076
2003–042	29,243
Total	196,496

Notes:

1. Includes 8,636 properties treated on the NEEDS scheme.

2. Includes properties in the public sector treated with central heating upgrades and “innovative measures”, such as fuel switching, under the warm deal programme.

Yes. The Scottish Executive is routinely involved in the annual negotiations that provide Scottish registered fishing vessels with licences to fish in Norwegian, Icelandic and Faroese waters, across a range of established fisheries.

Following publication of the guidance in March 2004, the Scottish Executive wrote to Directors of Education to emphasise the need for local authority policies to reflect it. We have also established an e-mail address at [email protected] to enable home educators and others to provide feedback to the Executive, and have given a commitment to review the guidance next year.

Inspections by fishery officers in processing plants are not for the purpose of inspecting plants as such but for following the movement of fish landings which are under examination. It is not possible to differentiate between such inspections for the purposes of ensuring compliance with regulation in the way requested. However, the total number of inspections carried out in processing plants by fishery officers to ensure compliance with all fisheries regulations are as follows:

Year	Totals
2001	1,239
2002	1,383
2003	2,030
2004	1,763
2005 (to end March)	341

 

The following table provides the total number of successful prosecutions obtained against the owners and/or masters of fishing vessels, registered at a Scottish port, in the years 2000 to 2004 for offences which related directly to the illegal landing of fish.

Year	Totals
2000	4
2001	13
2002	15
2003	12
2004	6