- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 9 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will specify, for each water authority, the date at which the achievement of a uniform charging policy across the authority's entire area is expected.
Answer
Each authority currently applies a uniform charging scheme for domestic customers throughout its area. Future charging schemes will be determined in the light of a number of factors, notably the Water Industry Commissioner's Strategic Review of Charges.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any specific assistance is to be made available to help the tourist information office in Aberdeen and local tourist board in light of recent cut backs as well as the impact which the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak has had on local tourism.
Answer
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any specific assistance is to be made available to tourist boards operating in the north east of Scotland in response to the impact of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak on tourism.
Answer
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimated level of haddock discards was expected in the North Sea and built into the quota negotiations for 2001, whether this figure took into account the seasonal closure of fishing grounds under the cod recovery plan and whether there are any plans to revise the predicted level of haddock discards.
Answer
Answer expected on 8 May 2001
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what level of debt was inherited by each of the water authorities at vesting date and what subsequent interest charges have had to be paid each year since for each authority, giving separate figures for interest charges paid and penalties for redemption in relation to inherited debt.
Answer
The figures requested are given in each of the water authorities' published accounts. Copies of their accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament, and pre-devolution, the Westminster Parliament, back to 1996-97 are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Bib Numbers are as follows: -| Water Authorities' published accounts | Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib numbers |
| NoSWA | ESWA | WoSWA |
| 1996-97 | 97515 | 12833 | 12836 |
| 1997-98 | 12832 | 12834 | 12837 |
| 1998-99 | 4005 | 12835 | 4004 |
| 1999-2000 | 8790 | 7898 | 7925 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what rate of return was set for each of the water authorities and what actual rate of return was achieved for each of the last five years.
Answer
The current rate return set for each of the three water authorities is 6.5%.The figures requested may be calculated from those given in each of the water authorities' published accounts. Copies of their accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament, and pre-devolution, the Westminster Parliament, back to 1996-97 are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Bib Numbers are as follows: -| Water Authorities' published accounts | Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib numbers |
| NoSWA | ESWA | WoSWA |
| 1996-97 | 97515 | 12833 | 12836 |
| 1997-98 | 12832 | 12834 | 12837 |
| 1998-99 | 4005 | 12835 | 4004 |
| 1999-2000 | 8790 | 7898 | 7925 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the ratio is between net additional expenditure on fixed assets and net additional borrowings for each water authority for each of the last five years.
Answer
The figures requested may be calculated from those given in each of the water authorities' published accounts. Copies of their accounts as laid before the Scottish Parliament, and pre-devolution, the Westminster Parliament, back to 1996-97 are held in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
Bib Numbers are as follows: -| Water Authorities' published accounts | Scottish Parliament Information Centre - Bib numbers |
NoSWA | ESWA | WoSWA |
| 1996-97 | 97515 | 12833 | 12836 |
| 1997-98 | 12832 | 12834 | 12837 |
| 1998-99 | 4005 | 12835 | 4004 |
| 1999-2000 | 8790 | 7898 | 7925 |
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether East of Scotland Water has any plans to change the ownership of the Carron Valley reservoir or to enter into partnership arrangements for the management of that reservoir and its associated distribution system.
Answer
This is an operational matter for the East of Scotland Water Authority and I have asked Dr Jon Hargreaves, Chief Executive of ESWA to reply. His response is as follows;East of Scotland Water has no plans to change the ownership of the Carron Valley reservoir or to enter into partnership arrangements for the management of that reservoir and its associated distribution system.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Ross Finnie on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what rate of return is envisaged for the proposed Scottish water authority.
Answer
The current Rate of Return for the three water authorities is 6.5%. Issues such as the Rate of Return will be settled if, in light of responses to the current consultation exercise on the Water Services Bill, the Executive decides to proceed with the creation of a single water authority.
- Asked by: Richard Lochhead, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 April 2001
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Current Status:
Answered by Susan Deacon on 4 May 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many specialist multiple sclerosis (MS) nurses there were in each of the last three years; what the ratio of nurses to sufferers was in each year, broken down by health board and, further to the answer to question S1W-12859 by Susan Deacon on 9 February 2001, when the estimated number of MS sufferers for 2000 will be available.
Answer
Information regarding the number and ratio of specialist Multiple Sclerosis nurses is not available centrally. Estimates, based on Continuous Morbidity Recording (CMR) data, of the number of Multiple Sclerosis sufferers in Scotland in the year 2000 are now available.Information from the CMR System estimates that approximately 6,000 individuals were seen by General Practitioners, in respect of Multiple Sclerosis, in Scotland in 2000.
