- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out an economic impact assessment on the proposed fishing quota management and licensing system.
Answer
Along with a standard regulatory impact assessment, a significant amount of additional economic research was carried out to help shape the quota and licensing proposals. This includes research on producer organisations, quota holding and inshore management.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 26 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive what power it has to remove fishing quotas from owners who do not sign up to the proposed fishing quota management and licensing system.
Answer
We are confident that our proposals are both legal and enforceable.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 24 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the legal advice it received when drawing up the proposed fishing quota management and licensing system.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not discuss the nature of any legal advice received, nor indeed whether legal advice has been sought in relation to any matter.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can compel Scottish-based fishing boats to join the proposed fishing quota management and licensing system.
Answer
The proposals are for a Scottish quota management and licensing system which will apply to Scottish vessels and quota holders as defined in the consultation document Safeguarding Our Fishing Rights: The Future of Quota Management and Licensing in Scotland - Interim outcome of consultation report.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can compel Scottish-based fishing quota owners to join the proposed quota management and licensing system.
Answer
The proposals are for a Scottish quota management and licensing system which will apply to Scottish vessels and quota holders as defined in the consultation document Safeguarding Our Fishing Rights: The Future of Quota Management and Licensing in Scotland - Interim outcome of consultation report.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 13 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide details of all costing benchmarks that were agreed with the Devanha consortium during the tendering processes for new housing developments and the extent to which the targets were met.
Answer
The Devanha grant offer set a three person equivalent cost benchmark of 拢67,248, base dated March 2007. All projects agreed with the Devanha Consortium are assessed against this benchmark.
The Devanha Consortium is operating an open-book contracting process, therefore the final costs of delivery against targets will not be confirmed until the total programme completes.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 13 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an analysis of the Devanha consortium was completed in 2008.
Answer
Heriot-Watt University and DTZ were commissioned by the Scottish Government to carry out a monitoring and evaluation study of Devanha to run over the three year period of the programme. It draws on evidence collected through the monitoring and evaluation framework developed by the consultants through discussion with Scottish Government and Devanha partners and stakeholders. Key documents guiding the analysis have been the Offer of Grant from Scottish Ministers to Devanha Limited and the Programme Agreement between the Scottish Government and Devanha Limited. The evaluation will likely lead to a final published report, expected to be in 2011.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 13 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-19223 by Stewart Maxwell on 21 January 2009, whether the fact that no properties were built by the Devanha consortium in 2005-06 and 2006-07 resulted in an underspend in the Grampian region鈥檚 housing programme budget allocation and, if so, to where the surplus was relocated.
Answer
The Devanha Grant Offer was approved in March 2007, and so there were no properties built by the Devanha Consortium in 2005-06 or 2006-07. There was therefore no associated underspend.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 05 March 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 13 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will provide the names of consultants it contracted when setting up the (a) Devanha consortium and (b) Highland Housing Alliance consortium and a breakdown of the amounts paid to the consultants.
Answer
The Scottish Government did not contract with any consultants to establish Devanha Ltd. However, Devanha Ltd engaged the support of the Collaborative Working Centre (CWC) to provide guidance and support on the open-book procurement process.
Brian Burns Associates were contracted to assist in the setting up of the Highland Housing Alliance. On 19 October 2004, Communities Scotland contributed 拢6,148.75 towards engaging Brian Burns Associates to advise and prepare proposals for the Alliance on structural and operational topics. A further contribution of 拢14,000 was made on 24 March 2005 towards business planning support.
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 26 February 2009
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Current Status:
Answered by Alex Neil on 12 March 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, in order to inform responses to the consultation, Investing in Affordable Housing: A Consultation, whether it will clarify how it plans to ensure that the proposed lead developers will secure private funding and develop efficient cash flows for developments in cases where their consortia intend to transfer the relevant property units to another registered social landlord.
Answer
In the consultation Investing in Affordable Housing: A Consultation the Government has proposed developing guidance to support associations when setting up consortia and lead developer arrangements. This proposed guidance is intended to address questions such as the raising of private finance and efficient cash flows in cases when one association builds homes that are then owned and managed by another association. The full scope of the proposed guidance, and decisions about the reform proposals as a whole, will be considered by the government in light of the consultation responses.
