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Scottishministers appoint Justices of the Peace, on behalf of, and in the name of HerMajesty, to Commission Areas, under section 9 of the District Courts (Scotland)Act 1975. S2W-05107
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Date answered:
11 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional resources have been provided to local authorities to allow them to implement the direct payments scheme in the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Act 2002. The Community Care andHealth (Scotland) Act 2002 requires local authorities to offer eligible people directpaymen...
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Date answered:
5 December 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will address any concerns that many small waste oil burners will be made cost-prohibitive as a result of the Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations 2003. It would be inappropriatefor the Executive to become involved in commercial decisions on whether itwould be viable to upgrade small-scale industrial waste oil burners to meet therequirements of the Waste Incineration (Scotland) Regulations 2003.
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Date answered:
27 October 2003
The offshore windfarm in theSolway Firth is the only project in Scotland tohave applied for and received grant from the UK offshore wind farm capitalgrant scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many responses were received as part of its consultation on the draft Education (Additional Support for Learning) (Scotland) Bill and how many of these were from parents and parents' organisations.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received a letter issued in May 2003 from the Forum of Private Business in Scotland seeking a meeting with the Minister for Environment and Rural Development to discuss water charges for business customers; if so, whether the minister will hold such a meeting and invite all other bodies representing businesses that have expressed concerns on this matter A letter from the Forum of Private Business in Scotland has been received and I have agreed to meet them.
If Lord Fraser should encounter any difficulty, I am confident from my discussions with the Secretary of State for Scotland that I would have his full co-operation in resolving it.
The detailed administration of these schemes within Scotland is a matter for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, which operates within the packaging regulations that are very similar in Scotland and in England and Wales.
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Date answered:
21 March 2003