- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 5 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S20-2049 by Nicol Stephen on 22 April 2004, what train services will be accommodated by the additional four train paths per hour at Waverley Station in addition to the Bathgate to Airdrie line and the Waverley line.
Answer
The Executive is committed in the long term to delivering improved services over the lifetime of the new franchise. In addition to Airdrie to Bathgate, the redevelopment of Waverley Station will provide additional capacity, for example, to accommodate new Fife services following the opening of the Stirling to Alloa to Kincardine line. It will also improve the reliability of the existing timetabled services.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 1 July 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to increase the contribution of cycling to its integrated transport system.
Answer
We will continue to core-fund Cycling Scotland which was set up in October last year to promote cycling as a healthy, sustainable and environmentally friendly mode of transport. We will also maintain cycling, walking and safer streets funding to local authorities.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that builders and developers apply for Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative (SCHRI) grants.
Answer
New marketing initiatives, uniqueto Scotland, are being targeted specifically at builders. These,together with the publicising of case studies of the first grants, are aimed atproducing a gradual increase in take-up of this element of the SCHRI.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure an increased take-up rate of Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative (SCHRI) grants over the next 18 months.
Answer
Interest in the SCHRI continuesto grow as a result of the promotional activities being undertaken by our networkof project officers throughout Scotland. A national media campaign is also being planned whichwill further promote the support available to individual householders through thescheme.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 11 June 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 25 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there has been any take-up of the extension of Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative grants to builders and developers.
Answer
The Energy Saving Trust is currentlyin contact with a number of builders who have expressed interest and the firstseven applications are expected shortly.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 3 June 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what rate of take-up there has been for the Scottish Community and Householder Renewables Initiative to date.
Answer
Seventy-fivecommunity projects have been awarded funding of around £1.9 million under the Scottish Community and Householder Initiative, of which 25 have been completed,and 60 awards amounting in total to £76,000 have been made to householders.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 11 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will develop an action plan on flooding similar to that developed by the UK Foresight Programme and whether it will require the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) and COSLA to contribute to such a plan, as their English counterparts have done.
Answer
The recently published
UKForesight Report on Future Flooding is supported by a Future Flooding ActionPlan to which the Executive contributed. In line with this plan, we will take intoaccount the outcome of the Foresight report in planning our flood risk managementresearch and in the ongoing development of the Executive’s own National FloodingFramework and associated action plan.
Output from the National TechnicalAdvisory Group, which we established last year, will be integral to the furtherdevelopment of the Executive’s Action Plan. The SEPA, SNH, COSLA and other key stakeholdersare represented on the National Technical Advisory Group and are making a valuableinput to the work of this group and, thereby, to the implementation of the Executive’saction plan.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Patricia Ferguson on 5 May 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive on what occasions since May 1999 Scottish Ministers have exercised (a) prerogative functions including any functions originally conferred on a Minister of the Crown by a prerogative instrument and (b) non-statutory executive functions under section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.
Answer
The information requested isnot recorded.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 April 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 27 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in consulting on the proposals to be brought forward in order to comply with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive.
Answer
The second stage of a three-phaseconsultation exercise with stakeholders closed on 1 March 2004. Consultation wasundertaken jointly by the Scottish Executive, the UK Government, the Welsh Assemblyand the Northern Ireland administration. The response is currently being assessedand will inform the proposals to be consulted on in the third phase. The ScottishExecutive is discussing the developing proposals with Scottish stakeholders througha range of meetings.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 March 2004
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 27 April 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive what the implications will be of implementation of the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive for business sectors affected by the directive.
Answer
The directive seeks to reducethe environmental impact of disposing of waste electrical and electronic equipmentby encouraging separate collection, setting treatment requirements and requiringhigh levels of recycling. Manufacturers and importers of goods within the scopeof the directive will be made financially responsible for ensuring the collection,reuse, recovery and recycling of waste equipment. The recycling and recovery targetsand higher treatment standards are a business opportunity for the waste managementindustry.
