- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it considers that there should be the capability for setting different single farm payment modulation rates within the United Kingdom.
Answer
Yes. Under existingarrangements, different rates of voluntary modulation can apply in each part of the UK. We want to continue with these arrangements, as do other parts of the UK.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out any analysis of the impact of a single farm payment modulation rate of 20%, as proposed by the UK Government.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S2W-28343 on 22 September 2006. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’swebsite, the search facility for which can be found at
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/wa.search.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive when a decision will be taken in respect of the single farm payment modulation rates to be applied from 2007.
Answer
A decision can only be takenonce the rules for voluntary modulation are agreed.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 22 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will oppose the proposal by the UK Government to exercise the option of setting a 20% single farm payment modulation rate.
Answer
The UK Government has not proposeda 20% rate of voluntary modulation. This is the maximum rate permitted under thecurrent arrangements as set out in Regulation 1259/1999 which first introduced voluntarymodulation and the maximum rate that was agreed by all member states in voluntarymodulation proposals put forward during the December budget negotiations.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Rhona Brankin on 20 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the grants awarded from the additional top-up to the Scottish Forestry Grants Scheme of £6 million; for which forests these grants were awarded, giving the addresses of each area for which a grant was awarded, and which species were to be planted in each area.
Answer
Forestry Commission Scotlandhas not yet determined a detailed breakdown of how the £6 million will be allocatedbut it will largely be used to fund current approved contracts and to support landownerswho are restocking as part of the long-term forest plans system which was introduceda few years ago.
However, details of grant paymentsmade up to and including Friday 18 August 2006 have been published on the web pagesof Forestry Commission Scotland and can be viewed at:
www.forestry.gov.uk/sfgsgrantdetails.These details will be updatedthroughout the financial year.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 14 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether information is made public about individuals who have had sexual offences prevention orders granted against them and, if not, (a) how the public is made aware of any restrictions on the liberty of a sex offender and (b) whether the Executive will consider making such information public.
Answer
Sexual Offences PreventionOrders are intended to protect the public from the risk posed by sex offendersby placing restrictions on their behaviour. In order to manage that risk to thepublic it is essential that the police are able to monitor offenders. The mosteffective method of achieving this is for the police to undertake limited andsensitively managed disclosure of such information to relevant individuals andorganisations, for example local authority parties or head teachers of localschools. This limited disclosure, assessed on a case by case basis by thepolice is designed to minimise the risk of driving the offender underground andis an important element in ensuring public safety.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 13 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will replace the Community Environmental Renewal Scheme and, if so, on what date any new scheme will commence.
Answer
The Community EnvironmentalRenewal Scheme was designed to assist communities in the vicinity of past or presentquarries subject to the Aggregates Levy (in the case of disused quarries providedthat they would have been subject to the levy had they been in operation today).
The Aggregates Levy proceedswere available first from 2002 to 2004, and again from 2004 to 2007. Over this period£7.1 million has been offered or paid to 287 projects. The position on funding afterMarch 2007 will follow from decisions on the levy still to be announced by the Chancellor,and on subsequent decisions by Scottish ministers on distribution of any funds.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 13 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, following the publication of Choosing our Future: Scotland’s Sustainable Development Strategy in December 2005, which states that complex funding streams caused problems for those seeking to promote local environmental regeneration projects, when it will bring forward proposals to simplify the range and scope of these streams and on what date any new funding will be available.
Answer
We expect to bring forward proposalsto simplify the range and scope of funding streams for local environmental regenerationprojects by the end of this financial year and to implement new arrangements forfunding as soon as possible thereafter.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 4 September 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total cost of supervision of sex offenders has been, including the associated cost of police and council services and housing costs, in each year since 1999, broken down by police force area.
Answer
Supervision of offenders isa function of local authorities. The information held centrally relates only tofunding allocations to authorities for the supervision of offenders in generaland not separately for the supervision of sex offenders.
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 July 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Tavish Scott on 17 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-20465 by Tavish Scott on 17 November 2005, whether it will review its position in respect of contributing to the costs of the Inverness Southern Distributor Road and classifying it as part of the trunk road network.
Answer
Consideration of the InvernessSouthern Distributor Road in the regional transport strategy for the area is a matterfor the Highland Council to discuss with the Highlands and Islands Transport Partnership.Capital funding of £3,530,227 in 2006-07, and £3,530,227 in 2007-08 was made availableto the Partnership, by the Scottish Executive.
