- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2010
-
Current Status:
Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 27 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what work it has carried out to assess future workforce planning requirements for town planners.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not collate information centrally on the supply and demand of planners across Scotland. It is the responsibility of planning authorities to ensure that they have appropriate staff resources in place to meet their statutory responsibilities.
The Scottish Government works does however, work with the planning schools, the RTPI, the Local Government Improvement Service and employers to encourage the availability of appropriate professional skills in the planning service.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20442 by Jim Mather on 26 February 2009, whether it will provide (a) details of the evaluation of the online advertising spend, (b) the results of that evaluation and (c) an analysis of the online advertising spend compared with the total marketing cost of Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
The full report on Homecoming Scotland will be published in spring 2010. This report will include information on the success of the advertising campaign.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the full EKOS report on Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
Yes, the full EKOS report on Homecoming Scotland will be published as an appendix to the final report.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16990 by Jim Mather on 5 November 2008, what the total marketing cost was of Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
The total budget and cost of Homecoming Scotland''s marketing activity is approximately £2 million.
Homecoming has been delivered within budget and a breakdown of costs, including those for marketing, will be included in the final report.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide a geographical analysis of the new email addresses received during Homecoming Scotland 2009 as a result of online marketing.
Answer
Yes, this information will be included as part of the final report for Homecoming Scotland.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-20442 by Jim Mather on 26 February 2009, how much it spent on online advertising to promote Homecoming Scotland 2009.
Answer
£481,139 was spent on online advertising from the Homecoming marketing budget. Homecoming Scotland 2009 messages were also an integral part of wider VisitScotland online marketing activity, including campaigns such as Winter White, Perfect Day, European Touring Campaign and long-haul marketing campaigns such as I am a Scot. In addition, Homecoming Scotland 2009 messages featured on gateway websites promoting Scotland.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Monday, 14 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Jim Mather on 14 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19785 by Jim Mather on 30 January 2009, whether it will publish all of the (a) questions in and (b) answers to the YouGov Scotland Omnibus studies.
Answer
The questions and the answers to the YouGov surveys will be included in the full report on Homecoming Scotland and this will be published in spring 2010.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive when it next plans to review the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 and whether it is required to do so by a given date.
Answer
There is no specific statutory obligation to review the regulations and I have no immediate plans to do so.
The European Commission has indicated its intention to bring forward proposals for revision of the EIA Directive 85/337/EEC later this year or early in 2011.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive what part of the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 addresses drainage of moorland for purposes other than intensive agriculture.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S3W-29866 on 12 January 2009. All 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: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
-
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2009
-
Current Status:
Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 January 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many screening decisions the Scottish Ministers have issued for projects under the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 and how many such projects have been deemed to require the consent of the Scottish Ministers and the submission of an environmental statement to assist with its assessment.
Answer
Scottish ministers have issued screening decisions on 27 projects under the Environmental Impact Assessment (Agriculture) (Scotland) Regulations 2006, and the Environmental Impact Assessment (Uncultivated Land and Semi-Natural Areas) (Scotland) Regulations 2002 which they replaced. For 20 of those projects the decision was that there was no significant environmental effect; for five others it was that they were outwith the scope of the regulations. The decisions on two projects concluded that they were relevant projects likely to have a significant effect on the environment and accordingly could not be carried out without consent of the Scottish Ministers. An Environmental Statement was received for one of the proposals on 11 July 2009 and following consideration, consent was refused and the applicant notified on 4 November 2009. An Environmental Statement has not yet been received for the other project; consequently no consent decision has been made whether or not to grant consent.
Details of proposals submitted for screening can be viewed on the public register maintained under regulation 7(7) (b) of the 2006 regulations on the Scottish Government website at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Agriculture/Environment/16808/Publicregister/publicregister.
