- 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 regularly publish statistics on 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.
- 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 that it discards.
Answer
Current information on Scottish Government waste arisings is detailed in the Scottish Government Environmental Performance Annual Report for 2007-08 which was published in May 2009, copies of which are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 48458).
- 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 commission an analysis of existing recycling activity undertaken by public sector bodies.
Answer
The consultation draft of Scotland''s Zero Waste Plan is clear that all parts of the public, voluntary & private sectors need to demonstrate best Zero Waste practice in areas such as waste prevention, re-use, recycling and sustainable procurement. The consultation document can be found at
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2009/08/19141153/0.
As part of the consultation exercise and the process of finalising the Zero Waste Plan, the Scottish Government will consider future requirements for monitoring progress, as well as building the evidence base to achieve consistency between zero waste and sustainable economic growth. The Scottish Government will produce progress reports on Zero Waste achievements.
- 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 recycling.
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: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial assistance is available for students over the age of 55 wishing to study Higher National Diploma courses.
Answer
Information relating to financial assistance available to students over the age of 55 wishing to study Higher National courses is available from the Student Awards Agency for Scotland. Please refer to their website
http://www.saas.gov.uk/.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Adam Ingram on 17 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is concerned about the uptake of school meals.
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/sor0917-01.htm
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 require a police authority to demand information regarding benefits paid by the UK Government to a former police officer in receipt of a police injury pension.
Answer
In determining the entitlement to an injury award in any given week, the regulations require police authorities to take into account entitlement to any additional benefits payable in that same week, including those paid by the UK Government. Consequently, police authorities actively seek that information in order to ensure that the former officer will receive the amount of Injury Benefit to which he or she is entitled.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Police (Injury Benefit) (Scotland) Regulations 2007 require a former police officer in receipt of a police injury pension to make periodic declarations regarding the level of benefits paid by the UK Government as a result of an injury sustained at work.
Answer
As police authorities are required to reduce the amount of an injury award in line with the former police officer''s entitlement to any additional benefits, they may require the beneficiaries to update them with information in order that the authority may fulfil its statutory duty to pay the correct award.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 15 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what powers a police authority has to force a former police officer in receipt of a police injury pension to disclose information regarding benefits paid by the UK Government as a result of an injury sustained at work.
Answer
Paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 to the regulations requires police authorities to reduce an injury award by the amount of any entitlement to defined benefits payable by the UK Government. Given that former police officers benefit from these provisions there is a clear expectation that former police officers will provide police authorities with the necessary information to allow them to determine and pay the appropriate amount of injury benefit.
- Asked by: Elaine Murray, MSP for Dumfries, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 September 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how reducing the number of pupils eligible for the Education Maintenance Allowance by over 6,000 per year is consistent with its desire for a better-educated Scotland.
Answer
Based on an analysis of recipients of EMA in academic year 2007-08, it is estimated that around 3,700 young people will not qualify for an Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) due to the removal of £10 and £20 payments.
We know from previous research carried out under the last administration that some young people would have stayed on at school regardless of EMA and that the maximum £30 award has a greater impact on young people''s participation than the £10 or £20 awards.
We also know that some of our most vulnerable young people “ from the lowest income families “ do not want to stay at school and are not ready to go to college. That is why we are reinvesting the money saved from refocusing the EMA in developing our pilots of Activity Agreements.
For some of our most vulnerable young people, learning in a community or third sector setting will be the best option when they reach their school leaving age. Activity Agreements will, for the first time, treat this as a genuinely mainstream option for young people and improve the way they and their families are supported.
