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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S4O-00380

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2011
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether life extensions for landfill sites are compatible with its zero waste policy.

Question reference: S4W-03719

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Fastlink project will be phased in and what the timetable is.

The Scottish Government has committed up to £40 million funding to the core element of Fastlink. Strathclyde Partnership for Transport is responsible for setting out the delivery programme for Fastlink. The elements of the core scheme required for the Commonwealth Games in 2014 are scheduled to be in place in good time for the games and the element connecting to the new Southern General Hospital is scheduled to be ready prior to the opening of the hospital in January 2015.

Question reference: S4W-03766

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether NHS boards are required to maintain asset registers of medical equipment and, if so, what the value is of all medical equipment in each NHS board.

Question reference: S4W-03718

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether plans remain in place for Fastlink to extend to Clydebank.

Question reference: S4W-03655

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 27 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 7 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-03190 by Keith Brown on 27 October 2011, when it will place the required notice for the Borders Railway project in the Official Journal of the European Commission under the project’s new procurement model.

Question reference: S4W-03254

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it provides to local authorities to improve the energy efficiency of tenements and other dwellings with common parts or shared burdens.

The Universal Home Insulation Scheme (UHIS) provides grants to local authorities to operate schemes offering energy efficiency measures on a free-to-all basis, following a competitive bidding process. Councils should design their projects in the light of the analysis of the energy efficiency of housing stock in their area, as set out in their Local Housing Strategies. In 2011-12 the UHIS budget is £12.5million.

In 2010-11, several councils put forward projects for UHIS funding which were specifically aimed at improving energy efficiency in tenemental properties: these include Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen City. In the current year, projects include one specifically aimed at households in council tax bands A and B (Dundee City Council), which is likely to include significant numbers of tenemental properties. And the City of Glasgow has been awarded funding for a project which includes pre-1919 tenements in Strathbungo and part of Pollokshields West.

Question reference: S4W-03247

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding will be allocated to each urban regeneration company in each of the next three years.

Scottish Government funding for the Urban Regeneration Companies forms part of the £30million Regeneration Funding line, contained in the draft budget document, for which Level 4 allocations were shared with the ICI committee on 24 October 2011.

Specific allocations are as follows:

Urban Regeneration Company	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
Clyde Gateway	19.55	20	0
Riverside Inverclyde	2.5		0
Irvine Bay	2.5		0
Clydebank Rebuilt	0.45		0
Total allocation to URCs	25	20	0

Question reference: S4W-03250

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 2 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities have used their powers under section 69 of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009.

Question reference: S4W-03252

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 2 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many tenement management schemes have been established in each year since 2004, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S4W-03253

Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 2 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many tenement management schemes have included the installation of insulation in each year since 2004, broken down by local authority.