- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the administration and start-up costs incurred by Highland Housing Alliance in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008 and whether any grant funding was received for this purpose.
Answer
Details of the administrative and start up costs incurred by the Highland Housing Alliance between 2006-07 and 2007-08, and grant funding from Scottish Government are as follows:
| | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09 |
| Administration and start up costs | £167,500 | £190,500 | Not yet available |
| Scottish Government Grant | £29,325 | £12,500 | 0 |
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the actual build costs for properties completed by the Devanha consortium in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007 and whether these properties were delivered within the stated timeframe.
Answer
There are no build costs for the period 2005-06 to 2006-07 as no properties were completed by the Devanha consortium in this period.
During 2007-08, a total of 17 properties were completed. Final build costs will become available during 2009-10 and I will write to the member with further details as soon as they are available and a copy will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 47407).
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which boxes west of Shetland were subject to scientific research in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008 and what conclusions were reached.
Answer
I have asked Professor Robin Cook, Chief Executive of FRS Marine Laboratory to respond to you directly.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive which boxes in the North Sea were subject to scientific research in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008 and what conclusions were reached.
Answer
I have asked Professor Robin Cook, Chief Executive of FRS Marine Laboratory to respond to you directly.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the actual build costs for properties completed by the Highland Housing Association in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008 and whether these properties were delivered within the stated timeframe.
Answer
The Highland Housing Alliance has completed five private houses in Wick but the Scottish Government does not hold detailed information on the actual build costs of these houses as the Highland Housing Alliance is not a Registered Social Landlord.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what fish species were the subject of targeted research in (a) 2005, (b) 2006, (c) 2007 and (d) 2008 and what conclusions were reached.
Answer
Strategic research projects targeting specific marine fish species since 2005 are:
Anglerfish (Lophius sp.)
| 2005-08 | New developments in fishery independent methods (anglerfish) |
| 2005-08 | Quantification of Survey Gear Selectivity and Application to abundance estimation of key commercial species |
Cod (Gadus morhua)
| 2004-07 | Understanding the role of population structuring in the maintenance of cod stocks under changing fishing and climatic pressures. |
| 2006-10 | Management of spatially sub-structured cod stocks around the British Isles |
| 2006-08 | Size-structured partial ecosystem model for the assessment of cod recovery strategies |
Haddock (Melanogrammus aeglefinus)
| 2006-08 | Spatially explicit model for Haddock populations in northern UK waters |
In addition, the following research was targeted at demersal fish in general;
| 2003-07 | Metapopulation structuring within gadoids in the North East Atlantic(METAGADOID) (haddock and whiting) |
| 2003-06 | Inshore habitat use by juvenile fish |
| 2007-10 | Fisheries-induced evolution (FIE) |
Research “ Freshwater Species
Freshwater fish species subject to targeted research during each of 2005-08 were Atlantic salmon, sea trout, brown trout, pike, and Arctic charr.
Conclusions
Summaries of research conclusions are reproduced on the FRS web site (www.frs-scotland.gov.uk), along with downloadable copies of papers, reports and leaflets. Annual research highlights are included in the FRS Annual Reports and Accounts available on this site.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a breakdown of the administration and start-up costs incurred by the Devanha consortium in (a) 2005, (b) 2006 and (c) 2007 and whether any grant funding was received for this purpose.
Answer
There were no administrative or start up costs associated with Devanha in 2005-06. Administrative costs and Scottish Government grant for 2006-07 and 2007-08 were:
| | 2006-07 | 2007-08 |
| Administrative and start up costs | £32,923 | £82,038 |
| Scottish Government Grant | £14,182 | £68,991 |
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 January 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what criteria are used to assess patients’ eligibility for patient transport services in the NHS Highland area.
Answer
The Scottish Ambulance Service Patient Transport Service (PTS) provides transport for those patients with a medical need. The Scottish Ambulance Service strives to ensure that eligibility criteria are consistently applied across the whole of Scotland to ensure equity of access for patients to transport services.
Patients eligible for PTS transport are those:
(a) Where their medical condition is such that they require the skills or support of PTS staff on/after the journey and/or where it would be detrimental to the patients condition or recovery if they were to travel by other means.
(b) Where the patients medical condition impacts on their mobility to such an extent that they would be unable to access health care and/or it would be detrimental to the patients condition or recovery to travel by other means.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Saturday, 05 January 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 19 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive on which criteria the Inverness trunk link route between the A9 and A82 fell short in determining whether it should be funded under plans announced as part of the Strategic Transport Projects Review.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-19432 on 19 January 2009. 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: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2008
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Russell on 15 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to deal with the damaging effects to crofting and the rural economy caused by the rise in numbers of geese in North Uist.
Answer
In 2008 the Uist Local Goose Management Scheme increased goose scaring effort on the machair to protect the cereal seed crop. Goose-scarers employed by Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) have shot approximately 1,500 geese per annum over the last two years in addition to geese shot by tenants. The scheme is reviewed annually by the National Goose Management Review Group.
SNH contracted research is currently being undertaken to provide a projection of the population of the west coast greylag goose population which will help in formulating future management measures.
