- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is proposing to address the traffic impact created by extensive customer parking provided at out-of-town retail and leisure facilities as an alternative to a customer parking levy.
Answer
National Planning Policy Guidelines 8 and 17 provide that new retail and leisure facilities should be sited where there is a choice of transport. The Executive is keen to work with operators of major retail and leisure facilities and local authorities to reduce car usage for new and existing facilities through improving public transport, walking and cycling access and home delivery services.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 19 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive why the preparation of local transport strategies by local authorities is non-statutory.
Answer
The Executive does not believe it necessary to make Local Transport Strategies statutory. All 32 local authorities, together with Strathclyde Passenger Transport, submitted interim strategies. Moreover, a statutory requirement will not guarantee the quality of the strategies submitted.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 19 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it was represented at the Standing Veterinary Committee (Animal Health) meeting in Brussels on 10 May 2000.
Answer
Yes: the State Veterinary Service which represents the interests of all the GB Agriculture Departments, including the Scottish Executive's Rural Affairs Department, attended that meeting.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 June 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 15 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-4654 by Sarah Boyack on 30 May 2000, what the annual cost is of the Scottish Environment Protection Agency's comprehensive programme of monitoring environmental radioactivity.
Answer
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency's environmental radioactivity monitoring programme is carried out under contract by the National Radiological Protection Board. The current contract which commenced in April 2000 runs for three years, with a possible extension for a further two years.
The programme includes monitoring of environmental samples collected around nuclear licensed sites in Scotland, together with monitoring of environmental samples and foodstuffs collected from locations remote from nuclear licensed sites. The monitoring around nuclear licensed sites accounts for 80% of the programme and the costs associated with this are recovered from the nuclear site operators.
The value of the programme over the next three years is given in the table below.
Financial Year | Value (£) |
2000-01 | 330,300 |
2001-02 | 340,200 |
2002-03 | 350,400 |
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 14 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all North of Scotland Water Authority waste water schemes which will discharge effluent into the sea and which are currently in the planning, design or construction stages, together with their estimated costs and completion dates.
Answer
I am placing a copy of the information requested in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib. number 6647).
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 12 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive which of its agencies or departments and which public bodies currently operate systems of strategic environmental assessment in determining their policies and programmes.
Answer
Decision making across the Executive and its sponsored bodies takes account of the environmental implications of the various options under consideration. The Executive intends to implement its Programme for Government commitment to apply strategic environmental assessment in the light of the final terms of the EC Directive.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 12 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what role Scottish Natural Heritage and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee have in monitoring oil developments in Scottish coastal waters.
Answer
Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) do not have a remit to monitor oil developments in Scottish coastal waters. This is a matter for the UK Government. SNH and JNCC may however assist oil companies develop monitoring strategies by providing expert advice.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 12 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what role the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) has in Scotland and on what matters it makes representations to the JNCC.
Answer
The Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) is the forum through which Scottish Natural Heritage and its sister agencies, English Nature and the Countryside Council for Wales, deliver their statutory nature conservation responsibilities for Great Britain as a whole and internationally. The Scottish Executive may from time to time consult the JNCC and make representations to it on the discharge of its responsibilities insofar as these affect Scotland.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 21 January 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 9 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress the new Scottish Law Commission has made in its review of the law of the foreshore and seabed and when it is expected to submit its report to the Scottish Executive.
Answer
The initial stage has been for the Scottish Law Commission and my officials to explore in detail the content and process of this review. This stage has now been completed. The commission will now begin reviewing the full range of relevant Scottish law and will also consider experience in other countries. On the basis of this, they will develop a Discussion Paper; and, in the light of responses received to that, they will then publish their final recommendations by the end of 2002.
- Asked by: Tavish Scott, MSP for Shetland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2000
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Current Status:
Answered by Sarah Boyack on 8 June 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what its assessment is of the costs currently borne by Scottish local authorities as a result of the work they undertake for the Crown Estate Commissioners in assessing planning applications for aquaculture developments off their coastlines and whether such costs should be refunded to local authorities from the aquaculture rents collected by the Crown Estate Commissioners.
Answer
No such assessment has been made. This is a matter for the individual authorities who have sought a greater role in decisions about the siting of aquaculture developments. The management of the Crown Estate is reserved to Westminster.
