Daily Written Answers Friday 27 January 2012 (138KB pdf)

Stewart Stevenson: To date, Forestry Commission Scotland has entered into lease rental
agreements for wind power with EoN Climate and Renewables UK, National Engineering Laboratory,
RWE Npower Renewables, Scottish Power Renewables and Scottish and Southern Renewables.
Additionally, lease rental agreements for hydro power have been arranged with Conaglen Estate,
Dulas Hydro Generation, Inverleiver Hydro, Infinis, Triodos Renewables, Wyvis Plant & Power, RWE
Npower Renewables, Mr Peter Brown, Mr Tony Dalton and Mr Roy Foster.
Forestry Commission Scotland has not entered into any Joint Venture arrangements as yet. However,
Forestry Commission Scotland will have the option of entering into joint ventures with Partnership for
Renewables, Scottish Power Renewables, PNE Wind UK, E.ON Climate & Renewables and Fred
Olsen Renewables (for wind power) and with Green Highland Renewables and a consortium of
Broadland Properties and Gilbert Gilkes & Gordon (for hydro power).
In addition, Forestry Commission Scotland has a number of agreements relating to access across
the national forest estate that is required to service renewable developments on neighbouring land.
Finance
Alison McInnes (North East Scotland) (Scottish Liberal Democrats): To ask the Scottish
Executive what employment opportunities are available to locally resident long-term unemployed
people as a result of the Forth Replacement Crossing construction project.
(S4W-05071)
John Swinney: The Principal Contract for the Forth Replacement Crossing includes a requirement
for the Contractor to provide an average of 46 positions for the long-term unemployed each year and
for all positions to be advertised in local job centres.
Similarly, for the M9 Junction 1a Contract an average of five positions each year must be provided.
Governance and Communities
Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how
much the First Minister’s private office has spent on hospitality for employees of News International
Ltd in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Holding answer issued: 13 September 2011
(S4W-02243)
Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive when it
will provide a substantive answer to question S4W-02243.
Holding answer issued: 16 November 2011
(S4W-03791)
Siobhan McMahon (Central Scotland) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive when it
will provide substantive answers to questions S4W-02243 and S4W-03791, which received holding
answers on 13 September 2011 and 16 November 2011 respectively.
Holding answer issued: 10 January 2012
(S4W-04568)
John Swinney: The Scottish Government hosted a dinner on 19 March 2009, involving the then
editor of the Scottish News of the World, Bob Bird, to discuss the campaign for Mark’s Law. The cost
was £173.30. There was no expenditure in 2009-10 or 2010-11. The Scottish Government routinely
publish information on ministerial engagements online at:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/About/14944/Events-Engagements/MinisterialEngagements.
Learning and Justice
Neil Findlay (Lothian) (Scottish Labour): To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) prisoner-onprisoner
and (b) prisoner-on-staff assaults have been recorded at HMP Addiewell in each year since it
opened.
(S4W-04825)
Kenny MacAskill: I have asked John Ewing, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to
respond. His response is as follows:
The following table shows the number of assaults in HMP Addiewell since it opened in December
2008.