- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with which local authorities it discussed local food procurement in 2009.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36314 on 23 September 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.scotish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with which NHS boards it has discussed local food procurement in 2010.
Answer
Meetings have been held on sustainable public sector food and drink procurement with NHS National Procurement.
In addition, in August, sustainable public sector food and drink procurement was discussed at the NHS Commodity Advisory Panel involving the following Health Boards:
Ayrshire and Arran, Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Fife, Forth Valley, Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Grampian, Highland, Lanarkshire, Lothian and Tayside.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times it has discussed local food procurement with local authorities in 2010.
Answer
Local authorities have been involved in discussions on sustainable public sector food and drink procurement with a representative of the Food and Drink Industry Division of the Scottish Government, on eight occasions in 2010. A further three meetings are pending.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with representatives of South Lanarkshire Council and Scotgen (South Lanarkshire) Ltd regarding the proposed energy-from-waste incinerator plant on Dovesdale Farm, Stonehouse.
Answer
The Scottish Government has had no discussions with representatives of South Lanarkshire Council or with Scotgen regarding the proposed energy-from-waste plant at Dovesdale Farm.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it had or has had, and with what public bodies, regarding the policy, legal and financial implications of increasing the number of allotments across Scotland in (a) December 2008, (b) 2009 and (c) 2010.
Answer
Since 2008, the Scottish Government has actively engaged with COSLA to review the barriers that prevent local authorities enacting the Allotment (Scotland) Act 1892. The Scottish Government has also engaged with a number of other organisations including the Scottish Natural Heritage and Forestry Commission Scotland as well as other publically funded bodies such as Greenspace Scotland to explore increasing the amount of land available for growing spaces.
The Scottish Government has also established a Grow Your Own working group whose members include the Scottish Allotment and Garden Society, Elmwood College, Soil Association, Landshare, Commonwealth Orchards, Greenbelt Group, Greenspace Scotland, National Farmers Union and Community Food and Health (Scotland) which has a remit to produce best practice guidance, to explore the opportunities to and constraints of opening land up to development of grow-your-own initiatives and to advise the Scottish Government on the most effective way to provide strategic support for allotments.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with which NHS boards it discussed local food procurement in 2009.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36314 on 23 September 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.scotish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive with what bodies it discussed local food procurement in 2009.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-36314 on 23 September 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.scotish.parliament.uk/Apps2/Business/PQA/Default.aspx.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to schedule direct talks with the governments of Iceland and the Faroe Islands to discuss the total allowable catch quotas for mackerel set by Iceland and the Faroe Islands.
Answer
Scottish Officials have been part of an EU delegation that has had direct talks with the Governments of Faroes (9 to 10 September) and Iceland (21 September) on the issue of the unilateral total allowable catches set by these countries. The EU has the lead responsibility for negotiations with external parties on fisheries issues and I have been liaising closely with Commissioner Damanaki to identify how best we can get Iceland and Faroes back to the negotiating table and agree a multilateral deal that is fair for Scotland and protects the long-term sustainability of the stock.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 August 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what the recycling rate for (a) domestic and (b) municipal waste was in 2009-10, broken down by local authority, also showing the national average compared with the national target.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not hold 2009-10 domestic recycling rate data. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) is not expected to publish this data until the spring of 2011.
The table below contains the 2009-10 recycling rates for municipal waste collected by local authorities.
Local Authority | MSW Arisings (tonnes) | MSW Landfilled (tonnes) | MSW Incinerated (tonnes) | MSW Other Treatment (tonnes) | MSW Recycled / Composted (tonnes) | % MSW Recycled / Composted | BMW landfilled (tonnes) |
Clackmannanshire | 32,017 | 17,295 | 0 | 0 | 14,722 | 46.0 | 11,804 |
Fife | 246,462 | 135,197 | 0 | 0 | 111,265 | 45.1 | 85,140 |
South Ayrshire | 86,118 | 47,305 | 0 | 0 | 38,813 | 45.1 | 26,034 |
North Lanarkshire | 221,470 | 125,610 | 0 | 0 | 95,860 | 43.3 | 71,158 |
West Lothian | 108,781 | 62,034 | 67 | 0 | 46,680 | 42.9 | 33,591 |
Moray | 65,144 | 37,267 | 0 | 0 | 27,877 | 42.8 | 22,384 |
Stirling | 52,218 | 29,911 | 0 | 0 | 22,308 | 42.7 | 17,302 |
East Ayrshire | 72,103 | 41,325 | 0 | 0 | 30,778 | 42.7 | 26,322 |
Falkirk | 90,943 | 52,507 | 0 | 0 | 38,435 | 42.3 | 29,932 |
Perth and Kinross | 95,919 | 55,242 | 336 | 0 | 40,341 | 42.1 | 31,039 |
Argyll & Bute | 59,466 | 34,971 | 0 | 0 | 24,495 | 41.2 | 21,863 |
Midlothian | 49,095 | 29,020 | 0 | 0 | 20,075 | 40.9 | 16,592 |
Angus | 76,343 | 31,769 | 13,971 | 0 | 30,603 | 40.1 | 18,173 |
East Lothian | 67,189 | 40,348 | 0 | 0 | 26,841 | 39.9 | 24,809 |
North Ayrshire | 86,958 | 52,424 | 0 | 0 | 34,534 | 39.7 | 30,413 |
Dundee | 95,760 | 16,388 | 41,931 | 0 | 37,441 | 39.1 | 7,074 |
South Lanarkshire | 185,537 | 113,510 | 0 | 0 | 72,027 | 38.8 | 74,048 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 94,210 | 48,047 | 9,733 | 0 | 36,430 | 38.7 | 22,964 |
Scottish Borders | 71,180 | 44,120 | 235 | 0 | 26,825 | 37.7 | 25,594 |
East Renfrewshire | 51,542 | 32,688 | 393 | 0 | 18,461 | 35.8 | 20,052 |
Renfrewshire | 92,800 | 60,016 | 0 | 0 | 32,783 | 35.3 | 38,499 |
East Dunbartonshire | 70,369 | 45,578 | 0 | 0 | 24,791 | 35.2 | 27,881 |
Highland | 160,143 | 104,457 | 562 | 0 | 55,124 | 34.4 | 65,110 |
Aberdeenshire | 150,567 | 98,961 | 0 | 0 | 51,606 | 34.3 | 66,693 |
Edinburgh | 232,040 | 160,292 | 53 | 0 | 71,695 | 30.9 | 97,296 |
West Dunbartonshire | 48,467 | 33,633 | 0 | 0 | 14,834 | 30.6 | 20,807 |
Inverclyde | 48,259 | 33,946 | 0 | 0 | 14,312 | 29.7 | 21,353 |
Orkney | 15,402 | 3,797 | 7,160 | 0 | 4,445 | 28.9 | 579 |
Aberdeen | 125,024 | 92,417 | 0 | 0 | 32,607 | 26.1 | 56,952 |
Eilean Siar | 21,477 | 16,495 | 0 | 0 | 4,982 | 23.2 | 9,956 |
Glasgow | 331,657 | 264,211 | 0 | 0 | 67,446 | 20.3 | 157,062 |
Shetland Islands | 13,659 | 784 | 10,122 | 0 | 2,752 | 20.2 | 575 |
Total Scotland | 3,218,318 | 1,961,565 | 84,562 | 0 | 1,172,190 | 36.4 | 1,179,052 |
Source: SEPA Waste Data Flow.
- Asked by: Jim Hume, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2010
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 17 September 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how much was awarded in funding through the European Fisheries Fund programme in 2009-10.
Answer
The Scottish Government made awards amounting to £13.8 million through the European Fisheries Fund programme in 2009-10.