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As of 10 April 2013, 21 Scottish local authorities have registered with The Share Foundation, confirming that they wish to offer Junior Individual Savings Accounts to looked after children in their area. The list is available at:

www.sharefound.org.

The Scottish Government will continue to liaise with local authorities, the UK Government and The Share Foundation to ensure that all eligible looked after children in Scotland benefit from this scheme.

As of 10 April 2013, a total of 225 children, have had Junior Investment Savings Accounts set up, with an initial contribution of £200 each from the UK Government. These children are looked after by the 3 Scottish local authorities who have provided data to enable the accounts to be set up. The list of authorities who have provided data is available at:

www.sharefound.org.

In December 2012, the Scottish Government issued guidance to local authorities promoting registration in the Junior Individual Savings Accounts scheme for looked after children.

That guidance stated that participation in the scheme is regarded as a core function of a local authority’s corporate parenting responsibilities. As such we would expect them to comply with the necessary requirements to invest for looked after children within their care.

We will continue to liaise with Scottish local authorities, the UK Government and The Share Foundation to ensure that all eligible looked after children in Scotland benefit from this scheme.

The information requested is not held centrally.

Scottish Enterprise are investing in project development at Dundee, Leith and Rosyth and in project delivery at Methil, Hunterston, Inchgreen and Westway.

Similarly Highlands and Islands Enterprise are investing in project development at Kishorn and Wick and project delivery at Arnish, Macrihanish, Nigg, Scrabster and Mallaig.

Leverage at the project development stage is in the form of private sector involvement in masterplanning and site appraisal processes. At project delivery stage leverage arises from the appraisal of each individual project. Therefore, the amount of private sector investment at each site is as follows:

In the National Renewables Infrastructure Plan (N-RIP 2) an analysis was carried out to identify the potential direct job benefits arising from the development of all the sites identified. This illustrated that should all the sites be developed for their assumed set of uses Scotland would benefit from 5180 direct manufacturing jobs. This analysis does not include multiplier effects or jobs arising from research and development, installation processes and on-going operation and maintenance jobs. For further detail please refer to N-RIP 2 Report, Section 7.

The projects that have been supported and those under development indicate that this magnitude of direct manufacturing employment is achievable.

The 28,000 jobs is a longer term target. Scotland is already seeing significant progress with announcements from inward investors such as Gamesa, Samsung Heavy Industries, Areva of their intention to locate manufacturing in Scotland and announcements by Scottish companies of investments in the sector.

The oil stored at the SSE Power Station Loch Carnan is used on site, and as such is subject to the requirements of the Water Environment (Oil Storage) (Scotland) Regulations 2006.

The Kirkwall Fuel Depot is an oil storage facility used for the onward distribution of oil, and such installations are exempt from the Regulations.

A guidance note, Model Code of Safe Practice Part 2: Design, construction and operation of petroleum distribution installations (3rd edition) by the Energy Institute http://www.energyinst.org.uk/ is specifically focused at distribution installations.

The figure of up to 28,000 jobs in offshore wind were estimated in the Creating an Industry report commissioned from independent consultants IPA Energy and Water Economics which provided the baseline data for Scotland's Offshore Wind Route Map. The report estimated job creation across a range of sectors from development through supply and installation to operation but did not attribute specific job numbers to individual tasks.

Through the development of the National Renewables Infrastructure Plan both Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise worked closely with the identified ports and therefore encouraged them to submit expressions of interest in the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund (NRIF).

As a result the majority of interest was noted in the first two years of the Fund, as shown below.

2010: 27

2011: 12

2012: 3

2013: 0

The call remains open for those ports keen to take advantage of the offshore renewables opportunity.