- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in regard to the harvesting and disposal of plants grown at the GM crop trial at Munlochy in the Black Isle.
Answer
None. The consent holder is accountable to the Scottish Executive's GM Inspectorate for the conditions surrounding the harvest and disposal of the GM crops grown at Munlochy.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the specific location was for the disposal of plants grown at the GM crop trial at Munlochy in the Black Isle.
Answer
The disposal of the harvest from the GM crop grown at Munlochy is a matter for the consent holder, Bayer AG, who must satisfy the GM Inspectorate that the conditions of the consent have been met. The geographical location of the disposal site is not stipulated in the consent.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive who has monitoring responsibilities to ensure that GM crop trial plants are disposed of appropriately.
Answer
The Scottish Agricultural Science Agency, the Scottish Executive's appointed GM Inspectorate, monitor compliance with the conditions of individual consents, including the disposal of the harvested GM material.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 25 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue new guidelines to local authorities restricting the signing of contracts for the disposal of waste through landfill or incineration.
Answer
In general, local authorities are independent corporate bodies whose powers and duties are set out in statute law. Within the law they are free to exercise discretion in carrying out their functions and managing their day-to-day business. Ministers cannot intervene, except in particular circumstances where the law specifies that they may do so.However, in respect of waste management, the Executive expects authorities to take full account of the National Waste Strategy in their operations. The Executive will only provide grant support from the Strategic Waste Fund to authorities that intend to implement waste practices that accord with Area Waste Plans. Hence the Executive would not expect authorities to enter into contracts for landfill and incineration which are not in line with the relevant plans.In order to ensure that the amount of waste sent to landfill is reduced, the Executive intends to introduce a system of landfill allowances for Scottish local authorities and plans to issue a consultation paper on this shortly. The proposal is that authorities will only be permitted to landfill the amount of biodegradable municipal waste for which they have allowances.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 25 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many dairy herds are fed with foodstock containing genetically modified materials.
Answer
I am advised by the Food Standards Agency that information is not held centrally on livestock fed genetically modified (GM) feed and feed materials. There is, however, a fact sheet entitled "GM Material in Animal Feed" on the agency's website at:
www.food.gov.uk/science/sciencetopics/gmfoods/gm-animal.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Mary Mulligan on 25 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what monitoring is carried out to ensure that dairy herds are not fed foodstocks containing genetically modified material.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29061. 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/webapp/search_wa.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 23 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding for the Scottish Assigned Budget it derived for the landfill tax in each year since 1999-2000.
Answer
The landfill tax is part of the generality of revenues to the UK Exchequer. In setting public expenditure, it is not general practice to attribute specific revenues to specific spending provision.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 20 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will issue new guidelines restricting the future use of landfill disposal sites.
Answer
The Scottish Executive issued a consultation paper entitled
Safer Landfill on 29 August. This contains a draft set of regulations that the Executive intends to make, designed to tighten up controls surrounding the use and operation of landfill sites. A copy of the consultation paper has been placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre, (Bib. number 23948). It can also be viewed at:
www.scotland.gov.uk/views/views.asp.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 20 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many applications for the construction of wind turbine electricity farms it has sent to the Ministry of Defence for consultation.
Answer
Seven.
- Asked by: Bruce Crawford, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 06 September 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Hugh Henry on 20 September 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce new guidelines for local authorities to protect areas of scenic beauty and those considered environmentally sensitive or fragile from the development of wind turbine electricity farms.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-29056. All answers to written PQs are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at:
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/search_wa
