- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 21 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees earn less than £7 per hour in each non-departmental public body within the Highlands and Islands parliamentary region and, in particular, (a) UHI, (b) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, (c) Highlands and Islands Airports Ltd, (d) Highlands and Islands Enterprise, (e) Forestry Commission Scotland, (f) Scottish Natural Heritage, (g) Cairngorms National Park and (h) the Alliance of Sector Skills Councils.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
Contact details for Scottish non-departmental public body can be found on the government''s public bodies website:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Government/public-bodies.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees work more than 35 hours per week as part of their normal, not including overtime, core contract in (a) Highland, (b) Moray, (c) Orkney, (d) Shetland, (e) Argyll and Bute, and (f) Comhairle nan Eilean Siar local authority areas.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-22408, on 15 April 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 15 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many employees earn less than £7 per hour in (a) Highland, (b) Moray, (c) Orkney, (d) Shetland, (e) Argyll and Bute and (f) Comhairle nan Eilean Siar local authority areas.
Answer
This information is not held centrally. Local government pay and conditions are a matter for local authorities as independent corporate bodies.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 03 April 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 14 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to reopen the women-only facility at HM Prison Inverness.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. His response is as follows:
The SPS has no plans at this time to transfer female prisoners into Inverness. The facility in the prison previously set aside to accommodate female prisoners remains ready for use should the need arise as a consequence of overcrowding at HMP Cornton Vale.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 6 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many assets it disposed of in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008 and has disposed of in 2009, broken down by local authority area, and what the value is of these disposals.
Answer
Information covering asset disposals is published in the Scottish Government''s Consolidated Accounts and is available on the Scottish Government''s website;
www.scotland.gov.uk These accounts covering 2006-07 are published at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/10/30102402/0 and 2007-08 are published at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/09/29130020/0. The accounts in respect of 2008-09 will be published in due course. This information is not held by individual local authority area.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring it has carried out to ensure a consistent approach to the gritting of trunk and non-trunk roads.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20210 on 9 February 2009. 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/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what national forest estate sites have been identified for leasing.
Answer
No decisions have been taken about whether or not to lease significant parts of the national forest estate. This decision, and any decisions relating to the location of such leases, will be taken following our consideration of responses to the recent consultation on the forestry provisions in the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill. For the purposes of its options review, Forestry Commission Scotland identified around 25% of the productive forest area on the national forest estate as potential areas for leasing; these sites are located in Argyllshire and south Scotland.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that Comhairle nan Eilean Siar's decision not to open sports facilities in Lewis and Harris on Sundays has adequate public support.
Answer
It is for Comhairle nan Eilean Siar to determine policy on opening its own sports facilities in Lewis and Harris on Sundays.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 27 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the significance of regional air services between London Heathrow and Scotland for (a) economic development and (b) tourism.
Answer
From our on-going engagement with the Scottish business and tourism sectors, it is clear that no other UK or continental airport is as important in connectivity terms as London Heathrow, or an adequate substitute to it.
- Asked by: David Stewart, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria have been identified for the awarding of leases to the national forest estate.
Answer
No decisions have been taken about whether or not to lease significant parts of the national forest estate. This decision, and any decisions relating to criteria for such leases, will be taken following our consideration of responses to the recent consultation on the forestry provisions in the Climate Change (Scotland) Bill. For the purposes of its options review, Forestry Commission Scotland used relatively low levels of social and environmental benefit as criteria for identifying potential areas for leasing.
