- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Allan Wilson on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to expand its Community Leadership and Climate Change in Scotland document by introducing the full Councils for Climate Protection programme.
Answer
The Executive is awaiting the outcome of the Councils for Climate Protection pilot in England and Wales, due to be completed later this month. This will inform the on-going consideration the Executive is giving to ways in which it can further engage with Scottish local authorities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Andy Kerr on 9 May 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there are plans to provide annual Greening Government reports from each of its departments.
Answer
The Scottish Executive's first annual Greening Government report Our Impact on the Environment published in December 2001 summarised the environmental performance of the Executive as a whole. There are no plans to produce annual Greening Government reports from each of its departments.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 16 April 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to announce its sustainable development indicators.
Answer
We will publish a Scottish Executive statement on sustainable development soon. This document will include a list of the indicators we will adopt to monitor progress towards sustainable development.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Iain Gray on 26 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the local authority housing capital allocations for 2002-03.
Answer
I am able to announce the local authority housing capital allocations for 2002-03. These are set out in the following table.Capital Allocation Allocations 2002-03
| Authority | ProposedAllocations(£m) |
| Aberdeen City | 5.293 |
| Aberdeenshire | 4.495 |
| Angus | 1.536 |
| Argyll and Bute | 1.607 |
| Clackmannanshire | 1.597 |
| Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 1.701 |
| Dumfries and Galloway | 2.125* |
| Dundee City | 8.436 |
| East Ayrshire | 3.489 |
| East Dunbartonshire | 2.388 |
| East Lothian | 2.510 |
| East Renfrewshire | 0.964 |
| City of Edinburgh | 14.916 |
| Falkirk | 5.369 |
| Fife | 7.007 |
| Glasgow City | 22.000* |
| Highland | 7.230 |
| Inverclyde | 3.965 |
| Midlothian | 2.122 |
| Moray | 1.848 |
| North Ayrshire | 2.953 |
| North Lanarkshire | 12.330 |
| Orkney Islands | 0.224 |
| Perth and Kinross | 2.108 |
| Renfrewshire | 8.565 |
| Scottish Borders | 0.400* |
| Shetland | 1.000* |
| South Ayrshire | 2.906 |
| South Lanarkshire | 5.858 |
| Stirling | 3.048 |
| West Dunbartonshire | 5.657 |
| West Lothian | 2.097 |
| Scotland | 147.744 |
Note:*. Reduced allocations due to expected housing stock transfer during 2002-03 (subject to tenant ballot). Supplementary allocations will be made available later in the year, to cover the period to the actual date of transfer.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 21 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote research and development in respect of energy efficient technologies like solar panels and photo-voltaic cells.
Answer
Research funding for renewable energy is a reserved matter. However, the Scottish Executive is committed to the promotion and development of renewable energy, covering a range of sizes and different technologies. This is currently done under the Scottish Clean Energy Demonstration Scheme, which has already funded a photo-voltaic project. We are currently considering other ways of supporting community renewable developments throughout Scotland.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 21 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to set energy efficiency targets for education institutions.
Answer
We currently have no such plans.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what environmental management criteria have been built into the evaluation process through which proposals from local authorities under the school modernisation Public/Private Partnership programme will be considered.
Answer
The assessment criteria under which local authority bids for revenue support for school Public/Private Partnership projects are being considered are set out in Scottish Executive Education Department circular 8/2001, copies of which are available in the Parliament's Reference Centre. The assessment process is concerned with the broad principles appropriate at the Outline Business Case stage.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to encourage the use of solar power for bus stops.
Answer
We have no such plans.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Nicol Stephen on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many schools have been built incorporating solar panels.
Answer
The information requested is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Edinburgh Central, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Margaret Curran on 7 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it next plans to review the energy efficiency requirements within building regulations.
Answer
The energy efficiency requirements within building regulations have been reviewed and stringent new standards came into force on 4 March 2002.
