- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses have used the Zero Waste Scotland Food and Drink Advice and Support Service since it launched, and what (a) food waste reductions and (b) cost savings have been made as a result.
Answer
Just under 250 audits were conducted by Zero Waste Scotland by March 2020 through the Food and Drink Advice and Support Service. Between 2016 and 2019 the service resulted in food waste reductions of 2,500 tonnes of food waste per annum (a carbon saving of 8,700 tonnes of CO 2 e), and cost savings of £2 million, from the 200 audits during this period. Impact assessment work for 19-20 is not yet available and will increase this figure further; the service is also extending coverage to larger business which will increase savings potential.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much food waste it has prevented in each year since 2013.
Answer
As outlined in the Food Waste Reduction Action Plan a public review of progress towards the 33% target will take place during 2021, providing updated estimates of total food waste in Scotland and the commercial & industrial and household proportions. Scotland does not currently collect waste data at the granular level necessary to report annually or by supply chain sector.
The developing actions and infrastructure described in the response to question S5W-32200 on 30 October 2020, together with improvement in measurement methodologies will support an enhanced capacity for food waste and surplus measurement and reporting going forward.
All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2020
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the outcome of its consultation on setting a mandatory food waste reduction target and mandatory reporting of food surplus and waste by food businesses.
Answer
There has been some initial consultation with stakeholders regarding food waste and food surplus reporting within the recent consultation on proposals for legislation in the circular economy bill. It was put forward that there should be a power to enable Scottish Ministers to require mandatory public reporting of unwanted surplus stock and waste of certain materials by Scottish businesses. The full independent analysis of these consultation responses is available on the Scottish Government website .
We remain committed to consulting on the Scottish Government’s proposals for reducing food waste, as set out in the Food Waste Reduction Action Plan, in due course.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2020
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the cost of each communication initiative it has used to promote increased levels of recycling and reuse in each of the last five years.
Answer
A breakdown of the Scottish Government marketing spend between 2015-16 and 2018-19 is available on the Scottish Government website:
The majority of funding for recycling and reuse communication initiatives is provided by Zero Waste Scotland. Table 1 contains the funding provided for national level initiatives funded through Zero Waste Scotland or Scottish Government containing communications to promote increased levels of recycling and reuse in each of the last five years.
Table 2 contains a breakdown of the capital grants allocated by Zero Waste Scotland to Local Authorities to promote increased levels of recycling and reuse between 2015-16 and 2019-20. These costs represent the combined costs of technical and communications support. Separate costs for communication initiatives are not available.
Table 1. National level campaigns to promote increased levels of recycling and reuse in each of the last five years
Year | Campaign | Funding provider | Funding (£) |
2019-2020 | Food waste | Scottish Government | 53,042.18 |
2018-2019 | Food waste | Scottish Government | 303,516.65 |
2018-2019 | Greener Scotland | Scottish Government | 217,737.81 |
2017-2018 | Greener Scotland | Scottish Government | 88,893.75 |
2016-2017 | Greener Scotland | Scottish Government | 103,742.55 |
2015-2016 | Greener Scotland | Scottish Government | 53,042.18 |
2020-2021 | Managing our Waste | Zero Waste Scotland | 219,636.95 |
2020-2021 | Revolve Comms | Zero Waste Scotland | 94,799 |
2019-2020 | Pass It On Week | Zero Waste Scotland | 18,922 |
2019-2020 | Revolve Comms | Zero Waste Scotland | 331,393 |
2019-2020 | Trial Period | Zero Waste Scotland | 288,633 |
2019-2020 | Reuse Phone Line | Zero Waste Scotland | 18,720 |
2018-2019 | Pass It On Week | Zero Waste Scotland | 57,173 |
2018-2019 | APSE Stand & Award Sponsorship | Zero Waste Scotland | 12,014 |
2017-2018 | Revolve in Store Branding | Zero Waste Scotland | 1,813 |
2017-2018 | Reuse PR Contract | Zero Waste Scotland | 12,500 |
2017-2018 | Revolve Media Campaign | Zero Waste Scotland | 39,759 |
2017-2018 | Pass It On Week | Zero Waste Scotland | 5,163 |
2017-2018 | HWRC Reuse Signage | Zero Waste Scotland | 9,729 |
2016-2017 | Pass It On Week | Zero Waste Scotland | 31,387 |
2016-2020 | Recycle Week | Zero Waste Scotland | 74,002 |
Table 2. Capital grants allocated by Zero Waste Scotland to local authorities to promote increased levels of recycling and reuse between 2015-16 and 2019-20.
Year | Local authority | Funding (£) |
2019-2020 | Falkirk | 876,428 |
2018-2019 | Shetland | 151,917 |
2018-2019 | Dundee | 243,183 |
2018-2019 | South Ayrshire | 387,799 |
2017-2018 | North Ayrshire | 3,082 |
2017-2018 | Shetland | 596,450 |
2017-2018 | East Ayrshire | 327,370 |
2017-2018 | Dundee | 388,629 |
2017-2018 | Scottish Borders | 2,505 |
2016-2017 | South Lanarkshire | 202,695 |
2016-2017 | Glasgow | 1,657,885 |
2016-2017 | North Ayrshire | 71,672 |
2016-2017 | Scottish Borders | 36,425 |
2015-2016 | Glasgow | 1,143,692 |
2015-2016 | Highland | 36,783 |
2015-2016 | East Lothian | 29,576 |
2015-2016 | East Ayrshire | 77,338 |
2015-2016 | Glasgow | 28,992 |
2015-2016 | Edinburgh | 182,819 |
2015-2016 | Dundee | 53,871 |
2015-2016 | South Lanarkshire | 59,658 |
2015-2016 | Edinburgh | 162,310 |
2015-2016 | South Lanarkshire | 82,284 |
2015-2016 | Midlothian | 537,816 |
2015-2016 | Dundee | 39,213 |
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 October 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the timeframe is to deliver the £70 million fund to improve local authority refuse collection infrastructure and develop a new route map to reduce waste.
Answer
The £70 million recycling fund, announced in our Programme for Government 2020-21, will be delivered over five years beginning in 2021-22.
Zero Waste Scotland is progressing the development of a route map to reducing waste and achieving our 2025 waste targets. Further details, including a timeline for consultation and publication, will be provided in due course.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 01 October 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £70 million fund to improve waste and recycling infrastructure is new funding.
Answer
The entire £70 million recycling fund announced in the 2020-21 Programme for Government is new funding.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 October 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of the hospitality sector.
Answer
I last met with a range of hospitality and tourism representatives on 07 October.
I meet regularly with the industry, often through representative bodies such as the Scottish Tourism Alliance, UK Hospitality and others and a wide range of issues are discussed such as funding support, marketing, test and protect, visitor management, business rates, VAT and other issues.
Scottish Government officials also have weekly contact with the same bodies and others through meetings, phone calls and emails and through strategic groups including the Scottish Tourism Emergency Response Group and the Scottish Tourism Recovery Taskforce.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) it, (b) its agencies and (c) other public bodies have intervened in the production of the Indian film, Bell Bottom, to halt filming work and, if so, for what reason.
Answer
a) The Scottish Government did not intervene in the production of Bell Bottom to halt filming work.
b/c)The information requested about Scottish Government agencies and other public bodies is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether the production of the Indian film, Bell Bottom, was able to start filming during the initial 14-day isolation period when the cast and crew were in a defined "bubble", as set out in the British Film Commission guidance, Working Safely During COVID-19 in Film and High-end TV Drama Production.
Answer
The production company was able to make use of the quarantine exemption provided by the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (International Travel) (Scotland) Regulations 2020. Under this exemptions, crew members were able to travel from their accommodation to a production base during the 14-day quarantine period.
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 October 2020
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 30 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of incidents where (a) it and (b) its agencies have intervened to (i) temporarily and (ii) permanently halt film productions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Answer
ai) and aii) The Scottish Government announced on 22 March that Scotland would be placed under lockdown. Although the Scottish Government did not have any direct contact with productions actively filming in Scotland at this time, any production filming in Scotland would have needed to halt, as all non-essential workplaces were required to shut. We do not have a list of productions affected. On 14 July guidance on the safe re-opening of film and TV production during the coronavirus pandemic in Scotland was published, enabling the resumption of production activity.
Further information on this guidance is available online at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-guidance-on-film-and-high-end-tv-production/ .
The Scottish Government has not otherwise intervened to halt any productions.
bi) and bii)The information requested on behalf of Scottish Government agencies and other public bodies is not held centrally.