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Scottish Government and UK Government officials are in regular contact on a wide range of matters relating to policy on the natural environment and we would expect to be involved in discussions about any new policy developments affecting Scottish interests.
Most recently, the application by Fife Council for European Regional Development Funding (ERDF), to provide the harbour infrastructure to support a new service, was not successful. S3W-33496
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 April 2010
Financial support for tree planting on privately owned land is available through the Scotland Rural Development Programme. Land acquisition for new planting on the national forest estate is financed through the repositioning programme (under which areas of low public benefit are sold).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2010
Information gathered during the pilot will enable the joint Scottish Government/Industry EID working group to decide whether or not the new database should be rolled out on a compulsory basis or not at a later date.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 March 2010
We are currently planning to approve 21,500 new/improved affordable homes over the three year period 2008-09 to 2010-11, in line with our stated target.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 March 2010
Should any organisation have plans to develop new or improved facilities in Glasgow, the Scottish Government will be prepared to explore how best these might be taken forward.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2010
This project is due to be completed in June 2010. At the new Fish Veterinary and Aquaria facility currently under construction in Aberdeen photo-voltaics will be fitted to meet some of the electricity supply needs of the building.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many respite weeks recorded by local authorities in 2008-09 were the result of new services or initiatives. The Scottish Government published on 15 December 2009 in an Official Statistics Publication provisional figures for respite weeks in 2008-09 by each local authority in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 January 2010
Implementation of critical control points (CCP''s) is not dependant on the introduction of a new database or continued use of the existing animal movement database.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2010
These agencies include parts of the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, the Serious Organised Crime Agency and HM Revenue and Customs. The site will also provide a new forensic science laboratory. For operational and security reasons it would not be appropriate to publish details of all of the functions moving to the site.