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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will discuss with City of Edinburgh Council options for partial housing stock transfers to community-based housing associations with a view to achieving debt write-off and new investment in social housing in the city.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive at which meeting of its Cabinet the decision was taken to proceed with the tendering process for ferry services between the mainland and the west coast islands currently provided by CalMac. Early in itslifetime, the new administration concluded that the quickest and most effectiveway of putting in place the contract for the Cl...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive where any “inadequate water and sewerage capacity is currently restricting new housing developments”, as referred to in the SNP’s 2007 manifesto.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 August 2007
We notified 69 other organisationswho had expressed an interest in applying for funding for 2007-10 that the Fundwould not be open to new applications due to a restricted resource position.
To ask the Scottish Executive what contingency plans it has in place to ensure that HGV vehicles are able to cross the Firth of Forth in the event that the current Forth Road Bridge has to close to HGVs before a new crossing is built. Detailed planning work isbeing undertaken by officials from Transport Scotland, Scottish Executiveand the Forth Estuary Tr...
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions have taken place with finance and construction companies regarding funding options for a new Forth crossing. There have been informaldiscussions with banks, Partnerships UK and both construction and consulting engineersas part of the Forth Replacement Crossing Study.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the first supplementary to question S3O-305 by Stewart Stevenson on 21 June 2007 (Official Report c. 997), whether its proposals for a new Forth crossing include options for public transport.