- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has been notified by Dumfries and Galloway Council of a planning application to alter and extend the waste disposal facility and to construct a leachate treatment plant at Aucheninnes landfill site, Dalbeattie, affecting bog bush-crickets in that location, which Scottish Natural Heritage indicate may result in extinction of bog bush-crickets within Scotland.
Answer
The planning application for the Aucheninnes site extension was notified to the Scottish ministers by Dumfries and Galloway Council on 27 November. It is now being assessed to decide whether it should be called in for determination by the Scottish ministers or cleared back to the council for them to deal with as they see fit.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will determine whether to call in the planning application to alter and extend the waste disposal facility and to construct a leachate treatment plant at Aucheninnes landfill site, Dalbeattie.
Answer
The notified planning application for the Aucheninnes site extension was received by the Scottish ministers on 27 November and is now being assessed to decide whether it should be called in for determination by the Scottish ministers or cleared back to Dumfries and Galloway Council for them to deal with as they see fit. Our published target for dealing with such cases is that 80% should be assessed within 28 days, and 100% within two months.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the legal agreement proposed by Scottish Natural Heritage to protect the population of bog bush-crickets at Acheninnes landfill site, Dalbeattie, will be subject to public consultation before it is entered into and whether such an agreement requires the Executive's approval.
Answer
The content of the proposed legal agreement would generally be a matter for the signatories, who in the case of the Aucheninnes development would be Dumfries and Galloway Council, Scottish Natural Heritage and the applicant. There would not be a public consultation on the agreement although it would be perfectly acceptable for interested parties to make their views known to the signatories prior to the completion of the agreement. If the planning application were to be called in for determination by the Scottish ministers, the terms of the legal agreement would be a material consideration.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures it will use to determine the planning application to allow and extend the waste disposal facility and to construct a leachate treatment plant at Acheninnes landfill site, Dalbeattie, and how it will receive and consider representations concerning Scottish Natural Heritage's proposed conditions to conserve the bog bush-cricket at that location.
Answer
The planning application for an extension to the Aucheninnes site was notified to the Scottish ministers on 27 November by Dumfries and Galloway Council. It will now be assessed in the context of the statutory development plan and relevant national planning policies to decide whether it should be called in for determination by the Scottish ministers or cleared back to the council for them to deal with as they think fit. Any representations received by the Scottish ministers will be taken into account as part of the assessment process before a decision is reached.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures it, or Scottish Natural Heritage, will adopt to determine the likely effectiveness of the legal agreement proposed by Scottish Natural Heritage to protect the population of bog bush-crickets at Acheninnes landfill site, Dalbeattie; how the results of any public consultation on the agreement will be considered, and whether a public inquiry is the most appropriate mechanism for such consideration.
Answer
It is intended that the legal agreement will cover a management plan for the site and the adjacent land as requested by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) in order to assist in sustaining the bog bush-cricket population at the Aucheninnes site. The effectiveness of the management plan would be monitored as part of the agreed processes.The terms of the legal agreement will be a matter for Dumfries and Galloway Council, SNH and the applicant, although the Scottish ministers would consider the details of the agreement if the planning application were to be called in for their own determination.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Frank McAveety on 11 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the average annual spend per capita on learning disability services is in Scotland as compared with levels of such spend in England and Wales.
Answer
The last available information on this, as set out in May 2000 in The same as you? was that health and local authorities in England spent £59 each year on learning disability services for every person in the population, authorities in Wales spent £63, and the equivalent spend in Scotland was £54.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what up-to-date statistical data is available on energy flows, including primary inputs, transformation and distribution and areas of utilisation.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many journeys (a) single-hulled and (b) other oil tankers have made in Scottish waters in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is not held by either the Scottish Executive or the Department for Transport, which has responsibility for shipping policy, a reserved issue. Statistics are available on the numbers of tankers which arrive at Scottish ports from oil rigs or from abroad, as is, an overall estimate of the total tonnage of oil arriving at and departing from Scottish ports. These are given in Tables 3.6 and 3.8 of the Department for Transport publication Maritime Statistics 2001 (Bib. number 25429) and Table 10.7 of the Scottish Executive publication Scottish Transport Statistics 2002 (Bib. number 23316), which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) single-hulled and (b) other oil tankers operated in Scottish waters in the last 12 months for which figures are available.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31930 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Robin Harper, MSP for Lothians, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 November 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 9 December 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) types and (b) amounts of oil (i) single-hulled and (ii) other tankers have carried in Scottish waters in each year since 1999.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-31930 today. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa.
