- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 19 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many rural development contracts have been awarded that include financial reward for the maintenance and enhancement of peatlands.
Answer
A total of ten applications containing peatland management options have been submitted to the Rural Development Contracts - Rural Priorities element of the Scotland Rural Development Programme. Eight of these have been approved.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 19 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-478 by Richard Lochhead on 12 June 2007, what its timetable is for any consultation on draft licensing of animal sanctuaries legislation.
Answer
It is anticipated that a consultation paper on proposals to require animal sanctuaries to be licensed will be issued before the summer recess.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 09 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 19 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to review the regulations covering castration and tail docking of lambs following the Report on the Implications of Castration and Tail Docking for the Welfare of Lambs published by the Farm Animal Welfare Council in June 2008.
Answer
The government is presently consulting with stakeholders on the recommendations made by the Farm Animal Welfare Council in their report on the castration and tail docking of lambs in consultation with stakeholders. The report does not recommend a ban on these procedures and acknowledges that there are circumstances when there are animal welfare advantages to these procedures being undertaken.
The government''s response will be published in due course.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, as a result of the EU waste framework directive of 20 October 2008, local authorities will be required to differentiate between re-use, recycling and recovery, including energy recovery, in developing waste management policies.
Answer
The revised EU Waste Framework Directive does attribute different definitions to these terms, so local authorities will need to take account of these definitions when developing their plans for management of waste. However, it should be noted that these definitions are consistent with current Scottish Government policy and delivery of Zero Waste Scotland, so there should be no need to do anything differently.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what effect the EU waste framework directive agreed on 20 October 2008 will have on local authorities’ waste management policies.
Answer
Local authorities will be obliged to develop waste management policies in accordance with the revised EU Waste Framework Directive. Local authorities will be involved in the development of the new National Waste Plan for Scotland and, within the constraints of that plan and the strategic outcomes agreed with Scottish Government, it will be for local authorities themselves to devise their own policies in accordance with the revised Directive.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to issue guidance to local authorities on the agreements and targets set in the EU waste framework directive of 20 October 2008.
Answer
The new National Waste Plan for Scotland will perform this function.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what effect the EU waste framework directive agreed on 20 October 2008 will have on national waste management policy.
Answer
The new National Waste Plan for Scotland is currently being prepared for consultation and will take full account of the revised EU Waste Framework Directive.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18374 by Richard Lochhead on 9 December 2008, whether it will list the projects that have been awarded funding from the Zero Waste Fund for 2008-09 and how much each project received.
Answer
The 2008-09 Zero Waste Fund has been allocated as follows:
| Zero Waste Fund 2008-09 | Profiled Expenditure (£ million Rounded) |
| Delivery Bodies | |
| WRAP - Waste and Resources Action Programme | 8.81 |
| Envirowise | 2.80 |
| SWAG - Scottish Waste Awareness Group | 1.87 |
| CRNS - Community Recycling Network for Scotland | 0.76 |
| ReMaDe - Recyclate Market Development | 0.59 |
| KSB - Keep Scotland Beautiful | 0.50 |
| Eco Schools | 0.20 |
| KIMO - Fishing for Litter | 0.05 |
| ROWAN - Rossshire Waste Action Network | 0.03 |
| Local Authority Initiatives | |
| Food Waste Collection Trials | 0.60 |
| Former Strategic Waste Fund Awards Accrued to 2008-09 - Recycling and Composting | 4.18 |
| Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Recovery | 0.11 |
| Contaminated Land | 3.10 |
| Zero Waste Fund Transfers to Tackle Landfill Diversion | 16.74 |
| Central Initiatives | |
| National Recycling Campaign Development | 0.25 |
| Zero Waste Think Tank | 0.01 |
| Radioactive Waste Programme | 0.08 |
| National Waste Plan Review | 0.12 |
| Carrier Bag Campaign | 0.25 |
| Flycapture Monitoring System | 0.03 |
| Climate Change Bill - Waste Provisions | 0.01 |
| Waste Data Flow System | 0.01 |
| Total (£ million) | 41.1 |
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that local authorities should classify energy recovery from waste as recycling.
Answer
The Scottish Government do not believe that energy from waste should be classified as recycling. This view is in line with Article 3 of the revised Waste Framework Directive 2008/98/EC which defines recycling as meaning:
any recovery operation by which waste materials are reprocessed into products, materials or substances whether for the original or other purposes. It includes the reprocessing of organic material but does not include energy recovery and the reprocessing into materials that are to be used as fuels or for backfilling operations.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, as a result of the EU waste framework directive of 20 October 2008, local authorities will be required to report separately on waste that is re-used, recycled or recovered, including energy recovered.
Answer
Local authorities currently provide waste data returns to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency that cover waste recycling, composting, other recovery and disposal operations and we would not expect that to change as a result of the revised EU Waste Framework Directive. Re-use activities are not currently reported separately, and the revised Waste Framework Directive provisions do not place any new requirement on member states to do so. Nevertheless, we will consider wider reporting needs and requirements as part of the review of the National Waste Plan.
