- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for grants there have been under the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative in 2008-09 and for what technologies the applications were made.
Answer
There have been 1,204 applications for grants under the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative in 2008-09. These applications are listed by category in the following table:
| Household | 1,101 |
| Community | 89 |
| Energy Efficiency | 14 |
| Total | 1,204 |
The breakdown by technology for each of the grant categories is listed in following tables:
Household Stream
| Air source heat pumps | 152 |
| Biomass | 117 |
| Ground source heat pumps | 319 |
| Hydro | 0 |
| Lerwick district heating | 18 |
| Solar hot water | 425 |
| Solar hot water / wind | 0 |
| Solar PV | 11 |
| Solar space heating | 4 |
| Wind | 55 |
| Total | 1101 |
Community Stream
| Solar water | 22 |
| Solar Water / air | 1 |
| Solar PV | 0 |
| Solar water/ ground source heat pump | 0 |
| Wind | 18 |
| Wind / ground source heat pump | 0 |
| Wind / solar | 1 |
| Ground source heat pump | 7 |
| Air source heat pump | 21 |
| Water source heat pump | 0 |
| Ground source heat pump / wind / solar | 13 |
| Hydro | 2 |
| Biomass | 4 |
| Hydrogen | 0 |
| Whole island | 0 |
| Total | 89 |
Under the Community Stream, grants are also offered to improve the energy efficiency of the building:
Energy Efficiency Grant applications in 2008-09
| Insulation | 12 |
| Loft insulation | 2 |
| Total | 14 |
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20102 by Shona Robison on 4 February 2009, whether it will review the funding arrangements for Orkney Islands Council to enable its waiting list of direct payment applications to be eased and whether it will consider granting transitional funding in light of the council’s limited scope to make cuts in other areas to fund direct payments.
Answer
The Scottish Government will be providing local government in Scotland with record levels of funding over the period covered by the spending review 2008-11. The vast majority of the funding, including the funding for self-directed support, is provided by means of a block grant.
It is the responsibility of each local authority to allocate the total financial resources available to it to achieve agreed outcomes, and the Scottish Government will monitor performance to make sure that our shared national priorities are achieved. It is not for the Scottish Government to intervene in how local authorities organise these services. However, Orkney Islands Council and NHS Orkney are working with the Scottish Government Joint Improvement Team to look into redesigning services to support more integrated working across health and social care.
In addition, the Scottish Government is funding three local authority test sites (Dumfries and Galloway, Glasgow and Highland Councils) to evaluate the effectiveness of three different interventions to increase the uptake of self-directed support, including bridging finance (investing to save).
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what technologies were supported by each grant awarded under the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative in each year since its introduction.
Answer
The number of grants awarded for each technology supported under the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative, and broken down by year, are listed in the following tables:
Household Stream
| | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | Total |
| Air Source Heat Pumps | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 48 | 136 | 200 |
| Bio Mass | 4 | 14 | 31 | 47 | 64 | 96 | 256 |
| Ground Source Heat Pumps | 10 | 89 | 179 | 271 | 286 | 285 | 1,120 |
| Hydro | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| Lerwick District Heating | 0 | 42 | 15 | 18 | 31 | 16 | 122 |
| Solar Hot Water | 71 | 106 | 207 | 368 | 392 | 358 | 1,502 |
| Solar Hot Water/Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Solar PV | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 |
| Solar Space Heating | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Wind | 9 | 10 | 21 | 51 | 66 | 48 | 205 |
Community Stream
| | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 | Total |
| Solar Water | 1 | 12 | 9 | 15 | 42 | 36 | 50 | 165 |
| Solar Water/Air | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 47 |
| Solar PV | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 17 |
| Solar Water/GSHP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| Wind | 0 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 59 | 65 | 69 | 246 |
| Wind/GSHP | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 |
| Wind/Solar | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 18 |
| | 2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | Total |
| Ground Source Heat Pumps | 0 | 10 | 22 | 18 | 44 | 53 | 194 |
| Air Source Heat Pumps | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 40 |
| Water Source Heat Pumps | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| GSHP/Wind/Solar | 0 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 41 |
| Hydro | 0 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 38 |
| Bio Mass | 4 | 16 | 27 | 22 | 26 | 17 | 160 |
| Hydrogen | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Whole Island | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
Under the Community Stream grants are also offered to improve the energy efficiency of the building.
Energy Efficiency Grants
| | Insulation | Loft Insulation |
| 2008-09 | 5 | 7 |
| 2007-08 | 14 | 0 |
| 2006-07 | 10 | 0 |
| 2005-06 | 11 | 0 |
| 2004-05 | 9 | 0 |
| 2003-04 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 49 | 7 |
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 10 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many grants the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative is expected to provide under the 2008-09 budget.
Answer
The Scottish Government expects to provide around 1,200 grants under the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative under the 2008-09 budget.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 9 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when its carbon emissions reduction target strategy will be published.
Answer
The Scottish CERT (Carbon Emissions Reduction Target) Strategy, which sets out how we are working with the energy suppliers to achieve a fair share of CERT activity in Scotland, will be published in the spring of 2009.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 5 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of Orkney Islands Council to discuss funding for council services.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0305-01.htm
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the carbon-reducing impact will be of the introduction of the proposed permitted development rights for domestic microgeneration equipment.
Answer
The carbon-reducing impact will be from the increased up-take of renewable and low carbon sources of heat and electricity leading to carbon savings being made.
I also refer the member to the answer to question S3W-20747 on 2 March 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: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tonnes of CO2 are likely to be reduced through the introduction of the proposed permitted development rights for domestic microgeneration equipment.
Answer
The potential reduction has not been calculated. The figure would depend on numerous factors, including the type and models of technologies people choose to install; their efficiencies relative to their location and actual use, and the CO2 emissions from the mix of technologies they replace over the lifetime of the micro-generation equipment.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place with local authorities and representatives of local planning officers on the interpretation and implementation of the proposed permitted development rights for domestic microgeneration equipment.
Answer
Local authorities and representatives of local planning officers were able to respond to the consultation paper relating to permitted development rights for domestic microgeneration. Nineteen responses were received from planning and national park authorities.
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 2 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the likely impact will be of the proposed permitted development rights for domestic microgeneration equipment on reducing any burden on local planning authorities.
Answer
The Order will reduce the number of planning applications that require to be determined by planning authorities. The Regulatory Impact Assessment, accompanying the proposed Order, estimates the number of these as follows: (Table in para 5.19)
| Year | Option 3* |
| 2015 | 6,741 |
| 2020 | 15,190 |
| 2030 | 34,736 |
| 2050 | 62,974 |
By reducing the number of applications the Order will also result in a reduction in the revenue received by planning authorities. The Regulatory Impact Assessment estimates this to be as follows: (Table in para 5.27)
| Year | Option 3* (£) |
| 2010 | 980,000 |
| 2020 | 2,200,000 |
| 2030 | 5,000,000 |
| 2050 | 9,100,000 |
*Option 3 “ Permitted Development Rights Limited by Impact Thresholds.
