- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence there is of adverse effects from manure being spread annually on the same ground.
Answer
The environmental risks frommanure spreading are related to several factors, such as the quantity and the timingof the application, but not to whether it is annual. Evidence on the possible adverseeffects of the spreading of manure is summarised in Annex B of the Executive’s consultationpaper on proposed amendments to the Action Programme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones,issued on 16 November.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prisoners have made (a) one to five, (b) 6 to 20, (c) 21 to 50, (d) 51 to 100 and (e) over 100 freedom of information requests.
Answer
I refer the member to the answerto question S2W-31224 on 1 February 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament's website the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money was withheld from single farm payments under modulation in each year since modulation commenced.
Answer
The Single Farm Payment Schemecame into effect from 1 January 2005 with the first payments being made from 1 December 2005. Thetotal modulation receipts for financial year 2005-06 were £28.158 million. My departmentcurrently forecasts these receipts being £36.266 million for financial year 2006-07and £43.6 million for 2007-2008.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in light of the costs associated with Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (IPPC) regulations, particularly in Nitrate Vulnerable Zones, it considers that there is a future for the pig or chicken-producing sectors.
Answer
The IPPC Regulations are designedto tackle a range of potential pollution problems which can result from pig andpoultry farming and which may have an adverse impact on the environment, human healthor both. Although the regulations will impose additional costs on the industry,they should help to promote and secure the positive environmental reputation whichis essential for the future of Scottish farming.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many freedom of information requests have been made by Scottish prisoners in each year since the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 came into force.
Answer
It is for every Scottishpublic authority to adopt its own system for monitoring requests it receives forinformation. It is for each public authority to determine what information canmost effectively be recorded, and there is no requirement to monitor requestsin any particular way, for example by reference to any particular circumstanceof the requester. Further the Executive is not party to the detailed informationheld by any other public authority as a result of that authority’s monitoringsystem. It is therefore not possible for the Executive to answer this question.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 1 February 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what evidence there is of nitrate leaching from the spreading of natural manure after mid-November.
Answer
The evidence on the leachingof nitrate to groundwater as a result of the spreading of manure is summarised inAnnex B of the Executive’s consultation paper on proposed amendments to the ActionProgramme for Nitrate Vulnerable Zones, issued on 16 November.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by George Lyon on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the main causes of death were for (a) men and (b) women in each parliamentary constituency in each year since 1999.
Answer
Tables presenting theinformation available have been placed in the Scottish Parliament InformationCentre (Bib. number 41596).
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was spent on repairing damage to schools caused by vandalism in each local education authority in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested isnot collected centrally.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the most recent estimate is of the number of prisoners who continue to use illegal drugs after release.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron,Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS does not hold theseestimates. However, from August 2005 till July 2006, 1,211 prisoners accessedthe National Throughcare Addiction Service on release from prison.
- Asked by: Stewart Stevenson, MSP for Banff and Buchan, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 31 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total change was in the number of beds in (a) the NHS and (b) each NHS board between 2004-05 and 2005-06.
Answer
Information on the numbers ofaverage available staffed beds for the years ended 31 March 2005 and 2006 by NHSboard of treatment is published on ISD Scotland’s website at:
http://www.isdscotland.org/isd/files/Annual_trends_in_available_beds_HB_comparison_Nov06_preview.xlsInformation for the year ended31 March 2006 is provisional.
