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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any powers to require utilities and local authorities to co-operate in the undergrounding of overhead cable and wires for environmental reasons. All new overhead lines require the consent of Scottish Ministers under section 37 of the Electricity Act 1989.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 September 2000
The Scottish Executive sees no case to change that position.More generally, financial assistance for the industry will be available under the new Financial Instrument for Fisheries Guidance (FIFG) programme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 September 2000
It is for local authorities to approach the Scottish Executive with an economically and socially necessary case for a new PSO in accordance with the criteria contained within EC Regulation 2408/92.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 August 2000
The Scottish Executive is in discussions with other Government Departments and industry on how best to take forward the main recommendations of the Independent Expert Group on Mobile Phones.The Executive is consulting with other Government Departments on the production of a joint leaflet which will provide information for the consumer to make choices about their use of new mobile phone technologies. It will be available later in the year.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make allowances for "safety tonnage" such as additional shelterdecks when tonnage on new and modernised fishing vessels is recorded.
For 2000-01 expenditure on landscaping and the realignment of roads in Holyrood Park associated with the new Scottish Parliament will be covered by the £2.5 million transfer to Historic Scotland announced on 28 June.
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council was amongst the bodies consulted in April 1999 about the application for designation of a new higher education institution called UHI.
At the start of June, 51 Scottish applications had been submitted and, of these, 23 had already passed to the second stage of the application process. The New Opportunities Fund expect to announce the first successful HLCs later this year.
To ask the Scottish Executive what commitments it will give in relation to the environmental regeneration of current nuclear sites in Scotland as a result of statements on nuclear disarmament by the UK at a recent United Nations meeting in New York. While recognising the lengthy timescale required to complete decommissioning, the Scottish Executive is comm...