Meetings have been held on sustainable public sector food and drink procurement with NHS National Procurement.

In addition, in August, sustainable public sector food and drink procurement was discussed at the NHS Commodity Advisory Panel involving the following Health Boards:

Ayrshire and Arran, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Forth Valley, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Grampian, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian and Tayside.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36314 on 23 September 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scotish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Discussions on sustainable public sector food and drink procurement have been undertaken with the following local authorities in 2010:

Tayside Contracts (as the Catering and Procurement provider for Perth and Kinross), City of Dundee and Angus Councils, Glasgow City Council (Cordia LLP), Scotland Excel (as the procurement organisation for food and drink for Scotland''s local authorities), Falkirk Council, Aberdeenshire Council and South Lanarkshire Council.

Discussions have also been held at the ASSIST conference attended by senior officers responsible for catering in Scotland''s 32 local authorities and at the Association of Public Service Excellence (APSE; the organisation that represents managers in Scotland''s local authorities).

Sustainable public sector procurement of food and drink has been discussed with a wide range of Local Authorities on 7 occasions in 2009 as well as a wide range of NHS boards and other bodies. These are summarised in the report Walking the Talk - Getting Government Right - Procurement of Food by Public Sector http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/11/12111724/0.

Local authorities have been involved in discussions on sustainable public sector food and drink procurement with a representative of the Food and Drink Industry Division of the Scottish Government, on eight occasions in 2010. A further three meetings are pending.

The Invasive Non-Native Species Strategy for Great Britain provides a comprehensive policy framework to guide management response to invasive non-native species. This is based on the approach advocated by the Convention on Biological Diversity, which prioritises prevention. Once invasive non-native species are well established, complete eradication is rarely viable.

Whilst the Scottish Government will continue to seek to prevent the spread of North American crayfish in Scotland, it has no current plans for central government action to eradicate established populations. The Minister for Environment will shortly be meeting representatives from Dumfries and Galloway Council and other local interests to discuss the situation in Loch Ken with regard to North American Signal Crayfish.

I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36314 on 23 September 2010. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.scotish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.

Scottish Officials have been part of an EU delegation that has had direct talks with the Governments of Faroes (9 to 10 September) and Iceland (21 September) on the issue of the unilateral total allowable catches set by these countries. The EU has the lead responsibility for negotiations with external parties on fisheries issues and I have been liaising closely with Commissioner Damanaki to identify how best we can get Iceland and Faroes back to the negotiating table and agree a multilateral deal that is fair for Scotland and protects the long-term sustainability of the stock.

The Scottish Government does not hold 2009-10 domestic recycling rate data. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is not expected to publish this data until the spring of 2011.

The table below contains the 2009-10 recycling rates for municipal waste collected by local authorities.

Local Authority	MSW Arisings (tonnes)	MSW Landfilled (tonnes)	MSW Incinerated (tonnes)	MSW Other Treatment (tonnes)	MSW Recycled / Composted (tonnes)	% MSW Recycled / Composted	BMW landfilled (tonnes)
Clackmannanshire	32,017	17,295	0	0	14,722	46.0	11,804
Fife	246,462	135,197	0	0	111,265	45.1	85,140
South Ayrshire	86,118	47,305	0	0	38,813	45.1	26,034
North Lanarkshire	221,470	125,610	0	0	95,860	43.3	71,158
West Lothian	108,781	62,034	67	0	46,680	42.9	33,591
Moray	65,144	37,267	0	0	27,877	42.8	22,384
Stirling	52,218	29,911	0	0	22,308	42.7	17,302
East Ayrshire	72,103	41,325	0	0	30,778	42.7	26,322
Falkirk	90,943	52,507	0	0	38,435	42.3	29,932
Perth and Kinross	95,919	55,242	336	0	40,341	42.1	31,039
Argyll & Bute	59,466	34,971	0	0	24,495	41.2	21,863
Midlothian	49,095	29,020	0	0	20,075	40.9	16,592
Angus	76,343	31,769	13,971	0	30,603	40.1	18,173
East Lothian	67,189	40,348	0	0	26,841	39.9	24,809
North Ayrshire	86,958	52,424	0	0	34,534	39.7	30,413
Dundee	95,760	16,388	41,931	0	37,441	39.1	7,074
South Lanarkshire	185,537	113,510	0	0	72,027	38.8	74,048
Dumfries and Galloway	94,210	48,047	9,733	0	36,430	38.7	22,964
Scottish Borders	71,180	44,120	235	0	26,825	37.7	25,594
East Renfrewshire	51,542	32,688	393	0	18,461	35.8	20,052
Renfrewshire	92,800	60,016	0	0	32,783	35.3	38,499
East Dunbartonshire	70,369	45,578	0	0	24,791	35.2	27,881
Highland	160,143	104,457	562	0	55,124	34.4	65,110
Aberdeenshire	150,567	98,961	0	0	51,606	34.3	66,693
Edinburgh	232,040	160,292	53	0	71,695	30.9	97,296
West Dunbartonshire	48,467	33,633	0	0	14,834	30.6	20,807
Inverclyde	48,259	33,946	0	0	14,312	29.7	21,353
Orkney	15,402	3,797	7,160	0	4,445	28.9	579
Aberdeen	125,024	92,417	0	0	32,607	26.1	56,952
Eilean Siar	21,477	16,495	0	0	4,982	23.2	9,956
Glasgow	331,657	264,211	0	0	67,446	20.3	157,062
Shetland Islands	13,659	784	10,122	0	2,752	20.2	575
Total Scotland	3,218,318	1,961,565	84,562	0	1,172,190	36.4	1,179,052

Source: SEPA Waste Data Flow.

The Scottish Government made awards amounting to £13.8 million through the European Fisheries Fund programme in 2009-10.