- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether its memorandum of understanding with Norway on co-operation and best practice in aquaculture, signed on 17 August 2009, has been published.
Answer
A copy of the
Memorandum of Understanding is available on the Marine Scotland Website at
www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Fish-Shellfish/international.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive who will attend the first meeting of the Joint Committee for Bilateral Co-operation on Aquaculture to be held in Edinburgh in November 2010.
Answer
The first meeting of the Joint Committee for Bilateral Co-operation on Aquaculture will be co-chaired by the Marine Director of the Scottish Government and the head of the Department of Aquaculture in the Norwegian Ministry of Fisheries and Coastal Affairs. Other participants will include representatives from individual aquaculture companies, trade bodies, regulators, government officials and scientists.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on developing best practice on engineering design standards in aquaculture since its memorandum of understanding with Norway on co-operation and best practice in aquaculture was signed on 17 August 2009.
Answer
An Improved Containment Working Group was established on 22 September 2009 as one of six Working Groups of the Ministerial Group on Aquaculture. The group will develop a Scottish technical standard for fish-farming equipment (moorings, cages and nets) over the course of the next year.
Government will work closely with the aquaculture industry as this work progresses. Scottish Government officials and members of the Improved Containment Working Group will also liaise with the Norwegian government under the auspices of the Memorandum of Understanding on Aquaculture Cooperation.
An update on progress will be provided to the next Ministerial Group on Aquaculture on 22 June 2010 and published on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Fish-Shellfish/18364.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made on developing collaboration in research since its memorandum of understanding with Norway on co-operation and best practice in aquaculture was signed on 17 August 2009.
Answer
The Norwegian Government sent a representative to speak at an Aquaculture Science and Research event held by the Scottish Government in Glasgow last year, and regular discussions have taken place between officials in both countries. The Memorandum of Understanding Committee will meet in Edinburgh later this year, at which a formal approach to collaboration on research will be agreed.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the recommendation of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in its Consultation on Proposals for a new Border Rivers Order for the River Esk that the obligation for the Environment Agency to consult the Scottish Ministers when making byelaws affecting the River Esk should be removed
Answer
These proposals reflect the position prior to the introduction of the Scotland Act 1998 and mirror the powers that the Scottish Parliament approved for the River Tweed in 2006.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the recommendation of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) in its Consultation on Proposals for a new Border Rivers Order for the River Esk that the Environment Agency should not be obliged to consult on emergency byelaws affecting the River Esk.
Answer
Emergency byelaws enable the Environment Agency to deal with emergency situations. They will be time limited and any future long-term or permanent measures will require full consultation.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to respond to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ (DEFRA) Consultation on Proposals for a new Border Rivers Order for the River Esk.
Answer
Following the current public consultation the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs will approach Scottish Ministers for approval before proceeding with the Order.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding has been made available to each local authority to improve air quality in each year since 1999.
Answer
The information requested is provided in the following table for 2005-06 onwards, the period for which electronic records are available. The information for 1999 to 2005 could only be obtained at disproportionate cost. Allocations are based on an application process, rather than being made automatically. The figures given below are total allocations for two separate grant schemes, relating to Local Air Quality Management and vehicle emissions testing. Not all local authorities apply for funding in a given financial year. Complete figures are not yet available for 2009-10.
From 2008-09 all local authorities have also received a direct non ring fenced allocation for air quality work. This is a consequence of the concordat signed by the Scottish Ministers and the COSLA presidential team in November 2007, which rolled up a number of specific capital grants into a single General Capital Grant. The air quality allocation is based on funding provided over the previous five years.
| Local authority | 2005-06 (£) | 2006-07 (£) | 2007-08 (£) | 2008-09 (£) |
| Aberdeen | 46,313.19 | 62,866.31 | 39,126.60 | 53,550.00 |
| Aberdeenshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Angus | 14,433.12 | 13,549.00 | 21,999.00 | 0 |
| Argyll and Bute | 0 | 21,958.18 | 7,357.32 | 0 |
| Clackmannanshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4,986.00 |
| Dundee | 118,000.00 | 106,817.00 | 17,850.00 | 0 |
| East Ayrshire | 10,703.14 | 0 | 28,913.00 | 43,803.66 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 53,201.06 | 86,203.79 | 46,593.18 | 35,610.00 |
| Eilean Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 10,466.00 | 0 |
| East Renfrewshire | 400.00 | 1,850.00 | 12,206.00 | 3,995.00 |
| Edinburgh | 0 | 28,124.71 | 12,500.00 | 0 |
| Falkirk | 0 | 17,705.00 | 16,950.00 | 7,500.00 |
| Fife | 41,386.00 | 23,127.00 | 60,000.00 | 54,784.00 |
| Glasgow | 263,990.88 | 351,360.89 | 265,000.00 | 320,698.07 |
| Highland | 0 | 0 | 12,250.15 | 0 |
| Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 10,750.50 | 0 |
| Midlothian | 25,494.06 | 0 | 0 | 20,285.64 |
| Moray | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Ayrshire | 0 | 0 | 10,305.44 | 32,689.22 |
| North Lanarkshire | 57,975.61 | 60,226.72 | 89,130.50 | 134,537.19 |
| Orkney | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perth and Kinross | 74,931.50 | 72,193.50 | 44,555.50 | 41,500.00 |
| Renfrewshire | 8,720.00 | 27,916.00 | 48,622.00 | 24,590.00 |
| Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 | 21,930.00 | 0 |
| Shetland | 0 | 0 | 30,000 | 0 |
| South Ayrshire | 23,728.49 | 13,353.92 | 46,830.27 | 12,735.18 |
| South Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 111,094.00 | 0 |
| Stirling | 14,000.00 | 14,918.00 | 14,768.46 | 0 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 40,830.00 | 55,530.00 | 28,000.00 | 11,999.30 |
| West Lothian | 80,232.66 | 76,589.66 | 175,511.25 | 147,190.59 |
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 14 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how the £0.02 million outturn efficiency for Animal Health and Welfare Publicity in 2008-09 was achieved, as reported in the Efficiency Outturn Report for 2008-09.
Answer
The Animal Health and Welfare publicity budget for 2008-09 was under spent by £0.02 million, as the invoices for the cost of issuing the Code of Practice on the Welfare of Equidae and reprinting the welfare codes on cattle, sheep, pigs and laying hens were late. These invoices, amounting to £20,000, were subsequently met from the 2009-10 budget.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 26 March 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 14 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how the £0.032 million outturn efficiency for the Scottish Sustainable Development Forum in 2008-09 was achieved, as reported in the Efficiency Outturn Report for 2008-09.
Answer
The outturn efficiency for the Scottish Sustainable Development Forum (SSDF) was delivered by incorporating the secretariat function within the remit of the Sustainable Development Commission Scotland and setting a fixed budget at the start of the year for events.
