- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons are for the abolition of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Sustainable Scotland.
Answer
I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-4256 on 26 September 2007. All answers towritten parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, thesearch facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms will be put in place to ensure that (a) there is close co-ordination between ministers on sustainable development and (b) all ministers drive forward action on climate change and meet targets, in light of the abolition of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Sustainable Scotland.
Answer
I refer themember to the answer to question S3W-4067 on 20 September 2007. All answers to written parliamentary questions areavailable on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can befound at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 26 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements will be put in place to ensure that projects assisted under the Environmental Justice Fund can be satisfactorily completed even if unforeseen delays require spending to continue into 2008-09.
Answer
We lookto managers to ensure that projects are completed in line with the terms of ourfinancial support. However, if exceptional and unforeseen circumstances arise whichresult in delay, we will look at each situation on a case-by-case basis.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 26 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to invite bids for funding from the Environmental Justice Fund for 2008-09.
Answer
Plans will be consideredonce the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review is known.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive when the decision was made to abolish to the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Sustainable Scotland and when this decision was publicly announced.
Answer
Structures inplace to support the delivery of an administration’s objectives will naturallycease at the end of that administration. It is for the new Cabinet to decide onany new structures which should be established. A Greener Scotland is one of the Government’ five strategic objectives as outlined in Principles andPriorities: The Government’s Programme for Scotland, published on 5 September 2007. We are serious about making Scotland a more sustainable nation and will work with a rangeof external bodies in delivering that goal.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to the second supplementary question to question S3F-125 by Alex Salmond on 6 September 2007 (Official Report c.1501), on what evidence the First Minister based his statement that “it is widely known that the so-called hit list was devised under a Labour Administration”.
Answer
It has been widelyreported from mid-2006 through to early 2007 that the Labour Administration of theprevious City of Edinburgh Council was considering measures to deal with a budgetdeficit. These reports included reference to the effects of falling school rollsand the prospect that a quarter of the city’s schools could be surplus to requirements.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 21 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings have been held between its officials and City of Edinburgh councillors, and on what dates and topics, since 16 May 2007.
Answer
Scottishministers and officials regularly meet representatives from councils, includingthe City of Edinburgh Council. Since 16 May 2007, there have been a number of such meetings with representativesfrom the City of Edinburgh Council covering a range of issues.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements are in place to ensure that the proposals it will bring forward in the spending review meet the annual 3.1% annual greenhouse gas emissions cuts required to achieve its target of an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and how this information will be communicated to MSPs.
Answer
We will use the spendingreview and other processes to set plans to achieve the government’s strategic objectives.The process includes reviewing proposals to ensure that they deliver, and will continueto deliver, the Scottish Government’s long-term objectives.
Pending the introductionof any statutory requirement in a future Scottish Climate Change Bill, we are consideringhow to report our progress on climate change to Parliament.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 21 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what the effect on greenhouse gas emissions will be of each decision that it has announced since May 2007.
Answer
In line with our commitmentto consult on a Scottish Climate Change Bill, including a long-term target of an80% reduction in emissions by 2050, we are taking steps to refine our approach toassessing the effect on emissions of new policy measures. In the meantime, the annualpublication of
Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Walesand Northern Ireland, availableat
www.naei.org.uk, provides a measure of the trend in overall Scottish emissions.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2007
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 21 September 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what meetings have been held between its officials and City of Edinburgh council officials, and on what dates and topics, since 16 May 2007.
Answer
Scottishministers and officials regularly meet representatives from councils, includingthe City of Edinburgh Council. Since 16 May 2007, there have been a number of such meetings with representativesfrom the City of Edinburgh Council covering a range of issues.
