Questions and answers

Question reference: S4W-13888

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13555 by Fergus Ewing on 20 March 2013, what the result was of the economic assessment for each project supported.

Applications are assessed for their additional socio economic impact through consideration of the scale and nature of the benefits, the extent to which these benefits are additional, the supply chain benefits, the concentration of benefits with Scottish businesses and people and the effect on existing economic activity.

Over the decade to 2020, renewables in Scotland could provide up to 40,000 jobs and £30 billion investment to the Scottish economy. Renewable Energy Investment Fund investment will support the creation of that economic benefit to Scotland

Question reference: S4W-13890

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13547 by Fergus Ewing on 20 March 2013, whether it will publish the assessed economic impact for each project supported by the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund.

Question reference: S4O-02020

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Orkney Islands Council and other stakeholders about the implications of Ortak going into administration.

Question reference: S4W-13785

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 17 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to promote the registration of local authorities for the UK Junior Individual Savings Accounts for children in care scheme.

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.

Question reference: S4W-13784

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 17 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many looked-after children in each local authority area have set up Junior Individual Savings Accounts.

Question reference: S4W-13783

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 17 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many local authorities offer Junior Individual Savings Accounts to looked-after young people in their area.

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.

Question reference: S4W-13548

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 9 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to S4W-12998 by Fergus Ewing on 5 March 2013, how much private sector investment has been leveraged into the projects supported by the National Renewables Infrastructure Fund at (a) Port of Dundee, (b) Port of Leith, (c) Rosyth, (d) Methil, (e) Hunterston, (f) Inchgreen, (g) Westway, (h) Kishorn, (i) Arnish, (j) Machrihanish, (k) Nigg, (l) Wick, (m) Scrabster and (n) Mallaig.

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:

Site Name	Investment Amount
Port of Dundee	£0
Port of Leith	£0
Rosyth	£15,000
Methil	£0
Hunterston	£0
Inchgreen	£75,000
Westway	£800,000
Kishorn	£135,420
Arnish	£0
Macrihanish	£5.9 million
Nigg	£9.231 million
Wick	£0
Scrabster	£7.8 million
Mallaig	£364,250

Question reference: S4W-13332

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 9 April 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many and what percentage of homes are not connected to the electricity grid.

Question reference: S4W-13676

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 27 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how it determines which fuel storage sites are subject to the provisions of the Water Environment (Oil Storage) (Scotland) Regulations 2006.

Question reference: S4W-13677

Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2013
Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 27 March 2013

To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons the SSE power station on South Uist is subject to the provisions of the Water Environment (Oil Storage) (Scotland) Regulations 2006 but the Shore Street fuel depot in Kirkwall is not.

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.

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