Parliamentary questions
Rosie Kane
130 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
9 Dec 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many tonnes of crude oil have been spilt in Scottish territorial waters in each of the last five years.
Answer · Allan Wilson: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4844 on 12 January 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/we…
9 Dec 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any powers to introduce legislation to require ships carrying toxic loads to undertake environmental impact assessments when their course is being plotted and, if so, whether it will do so, and, if not, whether it will make representations to the Majesty's Government on the…
Answer · Allan Wilson: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4844 on 12 January 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/we…
9 Dec 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any powers to introduce legislation to require ships carrying crude oil to undertake environmental impact assessments when their course is being plotted and, if so, whether it will do so and, if not, whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government on the ma…
Answer · Allan Wilson: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-4844 on 12 January 2004.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/we…
9 Dec 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will introduce legislation to require companies to pay compensation to communities affected by oil spills.
Answer · Allan Wilson: The Scottish Executive has no functions in relation to these matters which fall under theprovisions of Merchant Shipping legislation. Such matters are reserved and arewithin the responsibilities of either the Department for Transport or theMaritime and Coastg…
9 Dec 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4016 by Ross Finnie on 24 November 2003, what safeguards it has, or will, put in place in respect of the environmental impact of any terrorist attack on Ministry of Defence bases involved in the decommissioning of nuclear submarines and the storage o…
Answer · Ross Finnie: Safeguards against terrorismfor such sites is a matter for the Ministry of Defence. The Executive and the ScottishEnvironment Protection Agency would participate in the multi-agency response toany incident involving a radiological release at an Ministry of De…
9 Dec 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-4016 by Ross Finnie on 24 November 2003, what safeguards it has, or will, put in place regarding any environmental impact of the decommissioning of nuclear submarines and storage of nuclear material.
Answer · Ross Finnie: The decommissioning ofredundant nuclear submarines is a reserved matter. Any proposal in Scotland will be subject to environmental regulation and planningcontrols. This would be done by the independent regulator, the ScottishEnvironment Protection Agency (SEP…
19 Nov 2003 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the funding for the M74 northern extension is being obtained from the private sector and under what criteria that money will be provided.
Answer · Nicol Stephen: Funding of the M74 will predominantly come from the Scottish Executive and its local council partners. Contributions from otherpublic and private sector sources, will be sought where appropriate, but haveyet to be agreed.</p>
29 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which Scottish police force premises are being used by Home Office officials involved in the deportation of asylum seekers.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The use to which police premises are put, including accommodation arrangements with other agencies, are operational matters for Chief Constables and the agencies involved. I am not aware of any police premises being routinely used by Home Office officials. Al…
8 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates, and in which venues, meetings were called on community participation in the consultation process in relation to anti-social behaviour since June 2003; who the (a) platform speakers and (b) facilitators were at any such meetings; how many people attended each meeting, and w…
Answer · Margaret Curran: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3282 on 9 December 2003.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/we…
8 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive which organisations assisted in the organisation of, or facilitated, community meetings held since June 2003 in relation to the consultation on anti-social behaviour.
Answer · Margaret Curran: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3282 on 9 December 2003.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:</p><p><ahref="http://www.scottish.parliamen…
8 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive on what dates, and to which locations, ministers have undertaken visits to Scottish communities to discuss the issue of anti-social behaviour since 2003 and whether it will make available transcripts or notes from any such visits.
Answer · Margaret Curran: Ministers visited Scottishcommunities to discuss anti-social behaviour at the invitation of local MSPs,who organised, facilitated and advertised the visits. A table showing locationsand dates follows. The number of people attending varied from meeting tomeeti…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and what percentage of, Scottish Water's maintenance expenditure has represented fines imposed for pollution offences.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I have asked Dr Jon Hargreaves,Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>The main work Scottish Watercarries out on pollution prevention relates to its wastewater treatmentservices and operationally Scottish Water spent £…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and what percentage of, any Scottish Water budget surplus has represented fines imposed for pollution offences.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I have asked Dr Jon Hargreaves, Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is as follows:</p><p>Any fines imposed forpollution offences are taken into account before evaluating the budget surplus.Scottish Water had £85,500 in fines imposed for…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Scottish Water has spent on pollution prevention as a percentage of any budget surplus that it has.
Answer · Ross Finnie: have asked Dr JonHargreaves, Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>The main work Scottish Watercarries out on pollution prevention relates to its wastewater treatmentservices and in 2002-03 Scottish Water spent £345.0 …
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how much Scottish Water has spent on pollution prevention.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I have asked Dr JonHargreaves, Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>The main work Scottish Watercarries out on pollution prevention relates to its wastewater treatmentservices and operationally Scottish Water spent £3…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what remedial actions Scottish Water has taken to prevent any further pollution incidents.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I have asked Dr JonHargreaves, Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>Scottish Water’s £1.8billion investment programme for 2002-06 is aimed at improving drinking waterquality and wastewater treatment and £800 million o…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive where pollution offences committed by Scottish Water have occurred.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-3214 on 31 October 2003. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pollution offences committed by Scottish Water have resulted in a court conviction.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-3214 on 31 October 2003. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what pollution offences committed by Scottish Water have resulted in a court conviction.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I refer the member to the answer given to S2W-3214 on 31 October 2003. All answers to written parliamentaryquestions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility forwhich can be found at <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/webapp/searc…
7 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what fines, and how many, have been imposed on Scottish Water for pollution offences.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I have asked Dr JonHargreaves, Chief Executive of Scottish Water to respond. His response is asfollows:</p><p>Scottish Water has beenconvicted of 10 pollution offences in 2002-03, which are detailed in the table:</p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellsp…
2 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will establish an environmental court as part of the implementation of the United Nations Aarhus Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters and, if so, what the remit of such a court would be.
Answer · Cathy Jamieson: The Aarhus Convention doesnot specify that an environmental court must be created and the Scottish Executive has no plans at present to establish one. The Executive are currentlymaking arrangements to meet the requirements of the convention in relation to pub…
2 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive how many prosecutions for pollution offences have been initiated by the Scottish Environment Protection Agency since the creation of the pollution inventory.
Answer · Allan Wilson: Since 1 June 2003, when the pollution inventory was launched in Scotland, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency has submitted 15 reports to the Procurators Fiscal servicerecommending prosecution under pollution legislation. I understand that none ofthese…
2 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive who records the information held on the pollution inventory.
Answer · Allan Wilson: The informationincluded in the pollution inventory is collated by the Scottish EnvironmentProtection Agency (SEPA) from returns submitted by operators. SEPA reviews thedata submitted to it for accuracy and consistency.</p>
2 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what exemptions there are from the need to carry out a strategic environmental assessment.
Answer · Ross Finnie: I refer the member to the answer given to question S2W-3101 on 23 October 2003.All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: <ahref="http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/w…
2 Oct 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria are under which a strategic environmental assessment (SEA) must be carried out.
Answer · Ross Finnie: The partnership agreementmakes an important commitment that “We will legislate to introduce strategicenvironmental assessment to ensure that the full environmental impacts of allnew strategies, programmes and plans developed by the public sector areproperly c…
17 Sep 2003 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made in its discussions with the Home Office and South Lanarkshire Council regarding Dungavel House Immigration Removal Centre.
Answer · Margaret Curran: Discussions are continuingwith the Home Office regarding the implementation of the recommendations madein the reports by Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Prisons and Her Majesty’sInspectorate of Education on Dungavel.</p>
4 Sep 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total publication costs of its consultation documents have been for each of the last four years.
Answer · Andy Kerr: All Scottish Executive consultation documents for the last four years can be found on the Scottish Executive website at <a href="http://www.scotland.gov.uk/views/views.asp">http://www.scotland.gov.uk/views/views.asp</a>.There is currently no central record of…
3 Sep 2003 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make representations to Her Majesty's Government regarding the implications for the health of children in the Dungavel immigration removal centre if they do not have access to proper meals.
Answer · Margaret Curran: TheExecutive has no plans to make any representations on this issue as theoperation and management of Dungavel, including the welfare of children, is theresponsibility of the Home Office.</p>
6 Aug 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to make any representations to Her Majesty's Government regarding the allocation of responsibilities between Her Majesty's Government and it in respect of immigration matters and their impact on the Executive's responsibilities.
Answer · Margaret Curran: Matters relating toimmigration and nationality are reserved to the Home Office and the Executivehas no plans to renegotiate this. However, the Executive regularly meets withrepresentatives of Her Majesty’s Government and raises a number of issues atthese time…
25 Jun 2003 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Executive what public consultation has taken place on the Queens Park development in Glasgow.
Answer · Mary Mulligan: This is a matter for Glasgow City Council as planning authority.