- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 7 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was budgeted for marine renewable energy in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008-09.
Answer
The renewable energy budget is not broken down into support for individual technologies.
However, the following figures show the renewable energy budget, including the Green Jobs budget, for each of the years in question.
| Year | Budget |
| 2006-07 | 11,920,000 |
| 2007-08 | 9,920,000 |
| 2008-09 | 22,525,000 |
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18456 by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008, whether the proposed HM Prison Grampian will have a comparable role to that of HM Prison Peterhead in the rehabilitation of sex offenders through the Sex Offender Treatment Programme.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
As intimated in the reply to question S3W-18456 the planned use for HM Prison Grampian will be as a community facing prison for North East Scotland.
Therefore it will not fulfil the same role currently delivered by HM Prison Peterhead, which holds the majority of sex offenders serving custodial sentences in Scotland and consequently delivers the majority of Sex Offenders Treatment Programmes (SOTP) provided by the Scottish Prison Service.
As the community facing role for HM Prison Grampian may require it to hold sex offenders from the region SOTPs or other public protection arrangements may be delivered at the prison for that group of prisoners.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-18456 by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008, whether the proposed HM Prison Grampian will have a comparable role to that of HM Prison Peterhead in the housing of serious sex offenders.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
As intimated in the reply to question S3W-18456 the planned use for HM Prison Grampian will be as a community facing prison for North East Scotland.
Therefore it will not fulfil the same role currently delivered by HM Prison Peterhead, which holds the majority of sex offenders serving custodial sentences in Scotland.
The community facing role for HM Prison Grampian may require it to hold sex offenders from the region.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to its news release issued on 9 September 2008 on renewable energy targets, which highlighted “a total private investment of over £800 million in green energy schemes over the last few weeks”, whether it will list the projects in question, also showing the value of each and the date on which the relevant investment decision was made.
Answer
The projects named in the news release, and the associated levels of investment, where this is already in the public domain, are as follows:
Clyde windfarm, £600 million;
Biomass plant at the Tullis Russell paper mill in Markinch, commercial in confidence, and
Extension to Crystal Rig windfarm, £22 million.
The statement highlighted some of the many renewable energy projects which reached various stages in their development over the course of the summer, demonstrating the high-level of activity underway across the sector in Scotland.
The dates on which the relevant investment decisions were made are a matter for the private companies concerned.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 October 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the First Minister’s statement on 24 September 2008 that “£1 billion of new private sector investment in the renewable energy sector” had “been made in the past two months alone” (Official Report, c.11088), whether it will list the projects in question, also showing the value of each and the date on which the relevant investment decision was made.
Answer
The projects in question, and the associated levels of investment, where this is already in the public domain, are as follows;
Clyde windfarm, £600 million;
Biomass plant at the Tullis Russell paper mill in Markinch, commercial in confidence;
Extension to Crystal Rig windfarm, £22 million;
Glendoe Hydro scheme, over £140 million.
The statement highlighted some of the many renewable energy projects which reached various stages in their development over the course of the summer, demonstrating the high level of activity underway across the sector in Scotland.
The dates on which the relevant investment decisions were made are a matter for the private companies concerned.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-16850, which received a holding reply on 4 November 2008.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-16850 on 18 December 2008. 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: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 18 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S3W-16851, which received a holding reply on 4 November 2008.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S3W-16851 on 18 December 2008. 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: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 10 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will continue to be its policy that serious sex offenders from all of Scotland serve their prison sentences at a single specialist unit.
Answer
I have asked Mike Ewart, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:
It is not the policy of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) that all serious sex offenders serve their sentence at a single specialist unit. Whilst the majority of those offenders who currently serve their sentence at HM Prison Peterhead are sex offenders, there are also significant numbers held at HM Prisons Edinburgh, Barlinnie and Dumfries and also HM Young Offenders Institution Polmont. Smaller numbers serving short sentences or in preparation for imminent release are also held at other establishments.
SPS will continue to hold sex offenders at different sites with adequate numbers at each site to support the development of appropriate expertise to work effectively with them, support risk assessment processes and the delivery of Sex Offender Treatment Programmes.
SPS have announced that the new prison for the north east, HM Prison Grampian, will be a community facing prison taking a range of tried and untried prisoners from the region.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to S3W-17293 by John Swinney on 28 October 2008, how many staff are employed in the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT); what the relationship is between it and the Scottish Government, and how many SFT staff members have been involved in discussions held between it, Aberdeen City Council and its professional advisers about the Aberdeen 3Rs school project.
Answer
At present, eight staff are working on Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) projects and programmes under the leadership of the Chair, Sir Angus Grossart. SFT has advertised the post of chief executive and will make appointments to this and further positions soon.
SFT is a private company limited by shares under the Companies Acts, and wholly owned by Scottish ministers. Ministers appoint the Chair and members of SFT and have set its overall priorities in the publication Taking Forward the Scottish Futures Trust (Bib number 45605).
Three staff working for SFT have been in discussions with Aberdeen City Council and its professional advisers about the Aberdeen 3Rs school project.
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 01 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by John Swinney on 9 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Futures Trust has a role in seeking to secure delivery of Aberdeen schools under the 3Rs project and, if so, what that role is.
Answer
Scottish Futures Trust is in regular contact with Aberdeen City Council regarding its 3Rs schools project and is providing expert advice to complement that of the council''s professional advisers to the project. The private sector consortium, which is contracted to the council for the provision of the schools, remains solely responsible for their delivery, including securing necessary funding.
