- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to increase reporting of predicted water quality at EC designated bathing water beaches.
Answer
All remaining (non-signage) bathing waters which currently look to be most at risk of not meeting the future EU bathing water standards in 2012 will be the priority ordered by user numbers. Ten to 15 sites are expected to be in this category.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 17 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what the sources of the pollution were that resulted in bathing waters at Heads of Ayr beach being assessed as of poor quality during the 2009 bathing season.
Answer
Significant rainfall, causing diffuse agricultural pollution to be washed from the land.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 24 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received recommendations from the Scottish Courts Service regarding the future location of the Justice of the Peace courts in the Sheriffdom of South Strathclyde, Dumfries and Galloway and, if so, what those recommendations are.
Answer
This question was answered in the Chamber. The answer can be viewed in the Official Report using the following link: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/business/officialReports/meetingsParliament/or-09/sor0924-01.htm
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-24398 by Roseanna Cunningham on 9 June 2009, whether an order changing the regulation of snaring has been laid before the Parliament.
Answer
I expect to lay an Order before Parliament very shortly which will make changes to the regulation of snaring in Scotland.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will demonstrate best zero waste practice in sustainable procurement.
Answer
The forthcoming Scottish Sustainable Procurement Action Plan will give guidance to public sector organisations on how to procure more sustainably. The action plan will include reference to some key points on how to minimise waste, for example by considering how to avoid waste when drawing up contractual requirements. This would ensure that construction contractors have waste prevention and management plans in place to forecast outcomes, specifying recycled content when purchasing materials such as paper and packaging, and specifying minimum packaging, reusable packaging and take-back of packaging.
The Scottish Government''s current target to recycle 80% of the waste that we produce across our estate by 2011 remains in place and in 2007-08 we achieved a 76% recycle rate for waste.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will demonstrate best zero waste practice in relation to waste prevention.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it intends to demonstrate best zero waste practice in relation to re-use.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made, or will make, an estimate of the financial costs to local authorities of achieving zero waste.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will report on progress towards achieving zero waste.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will monitor the proportion of (a) paper, (b) metal, (c) plastic, (d) glass, (e) food and (f) waste oils discarded by public sector bodies.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-27165 on 22 September 2009. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament''s website, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
