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To ask the Scottish Executive whether any discussions are being held on the future of Barlinnie Prison in Glasgow and the possible sale of the site of the prison. The Scottish Prison Service are conducting a fundamental review of their estate to identify likely future pressures and needs over the long term and to generate options for meeting these.
To ask the Presiding Officer what unforeseen site conditions have been experienced during the planning period for the Holyrood complex and the period of construction of the substructure and what additional costs have been incurred as a result.
The information is as follows:DescriptionCost to dateLandscaping and roadworksThese are not matters for the Parliament budget as they fall outside the site.Project Team staff£401,422HPT Site AccommodationNil S1W-05932
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 January 2000
As you are well aware, we get caught by the fact that, on a hydrological basis, the scouring of the sea around a number of aquaculture sites is not good. That has been found to be the case at sites where there is a lack of natural scouring by the ebb and flow of the tide.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2007
The costs have been expressed at 2006 prices.All answers to writtenparliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facilityfor which can be found at http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will not lay any statutory instrument on technical conservation measures in respect of the scallop industry in light of (a) opposition to the measures expressed in evidence to the Rural Development Committee by representatives of the industry on 8 October 2002 and (b) the recommendations of the committee expressed in its letter of 11 October 2002 to the Minister for Environment and Rural Development.
I have written to the Minister for Fisheries and Countryside at MAFF, Elliot Morley, expressing this view. The Deputy First Minister, Mr Wallace has also written to Mr Morley expressing similar views.
The drafting team has taken a very technical issue, has dealt with the views that have been expressed and has done a creditable job in translating those into sensible legislative provisions.I thank the minister for her comments about the committee and the drafting team.