- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has provided, or intends to provide, advice to planning authorities on how they should take into account the effects of ill-treatment of birds of prey in assessing applications for (a) wind farm development and (b) any other type of development and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
The Scottish Government is unaware of any evidence of widespread or significant links between the systematic ill-treatment of birds of prey and applications for wind farm or other developments. Consequently, the government has no plans to issue such advice.ªªª
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether impact on the natural environment, including on birds of prey, is a material consideration when assessing applications for planning consent
Answer
Planning legislation requires decisions on planning applications to be made in accordance with the development plan unless material considerations indicate otherwise. It is in the first instance for the decision maker, and ultimately for the courts, to decide if a consideration is material to a particular application.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 26 August 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, when considering applications for development consent, how it considers the possible implications of the development on birds of prey when their numbers are artificially low as a result of ill-treatment and what the reason is for its position on this matter.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-35625 on 26 August 2010 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: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 16 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-verbal adults there are, broken down by age.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold data on non-verbal adults by age, as this is not a recognised term used in current data collection. The Office for Disability Issues and the Office of National Statistics are currently considering whether a communication difficulty category might be included in future data collections, however this would be a wider category than non-verbal.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 13 July 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many non-verbal children there are in schools, broken down by age.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold this information centrally.
However, as part of the annual pupil census the Scottish Government collects information on the reasons for the provision of additional support. This can be found at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/PubPupilCensus.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 30 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people aged 40 to 74 will be entitled to universal health checks.
Answer
The total number of people who would be eligible will depend on the precise form a universal health check would take. The research currently being commissioned to support the piloting of the universal health checks will help establish the numbers likely to be entitled.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 29 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will instigate an audit of all of its directorates charged with delivering government funding for renewable energy technologies in light of the National Audit Office’s report, Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies.
Answer
There is no need for an audit of the Scottish Government''s funding for renewable energy technologies as renewables is a high priority policy area, with funding already being coordinated strategically under our plans for moving to a low carbon economy.
In policy terms, we are joined up across the Scottish Government on cross cutting issues affecting renewables, such as on community benefits.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 29 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department of Energy and Climate Change in relation to the National Audit Office’s report, Government funding for developing renewable energy technologies.
Answer
The Scottish Government has had no such discussions with the Department of Energy and Climate Change.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing Life Begins at 40 health checks.
Answer
An assessment of the costs of the Life Begins at 40 checks will be made towards the end of the pilot phase later this year.
The budget allocated to NHS 24 for piloting the Life Begins at 40 project was set for 2009-10 at £224,742 and for 2010-11 at £444,558.
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 28 June 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment has been made of the cost of providing universal health checks for 40 to 74-year-olds.
Answer
An assessment of the costs of providing universal health checks to 40 to 70 year olds will be one of the outputs from the research on the health checks pilots from 2011.
