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Commercial Lobbyists
Mr. Flynn: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what rules or guidance his Department has to govern the (a) formal and (b) informal interaction between his civil servants and commercial lobbyists. [66206]
Mr. Dewar: I refer the hon. Member to the reply my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister gave my hon. Friend the Member for Pendle (Mr. Prentice) on 27 July 1998, Official Report, column 4.
Hunterston B Nuclear Plant
Mr. Llew Smith: To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will make a statement on the emergency declared at the Hunterston B nuclear plant on 27 December. [66426]
Mr. Dewar: In order to operate their cooling systems all nuclear power stations need access to either the Grid or to their own power sources. As a result of the severe weather that affected the West of Scotland on 26-27 December 1998 connection to all 4 power Grid lines to Hunterston B was lost shortly after midnight. Staff safely shut down both the reactors at Hunterston B. Back-up generators were activated automatically to prevent overheating.
The generators were shut down when the Grid connection was restored. However, they did not restart automatically when the Grid connection was lost for a second time. An on-site emergency was declared early on the morning of 27 December. Management at the station took that decision to ensure that additional technical staffing resources were available to deal with the on-site consequences of the power loss as rapidly as possible. By this time the reactors had been safely shut down for nearly 11 hours. There was no damage to, or release of radioactivity from the plant.
Health and Safety Executive (HSE) inspectors are investigating the incident and will report on it in
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Mr. Swinney:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list for each project of over £10,000 the programmes funded by (i) Scotland Against Drugs and (ii) the Drugs Challenge Fund in 1997-98 indicating the programmes of over £10,000 which have been commissioned under these headings in financial years 1998-99 and 1999-2000; what is the total proposed budget for (a) SAD and (b) the Drugs Challenge Fund for each of the next three financial years; what are the running costs; and what percentage of total funds will be under the control of the Scottish Parliament. [65939]
Mr. Galbraith
[holding answer 18 January 1999]: Funding of £1 million per annum has been made available to Scotland Against Drugs, including £0.5 million for the Drugs Challenge Fund for the years 1998-99 to 2000-01. Running costs for this financial year are estimated at £0.250 million. These funds will come under the control of the Scottish Parliament.
Information on programmes over £10,000 is set out in the tables.
their Quarterly Statement of Nuclear Incidents at Nuclear Installations; and
I have asked HSE to send copies of these documents to my hon. Friend when they are published.
| £ | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Programme | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | 1999-2000 |
| National Drug Awareness Week Activity/Promotion | 115,942 | -- | -- |
| Young People's Programme | |||
| Primary School Project | 40,038 | -- | -- |
| Youth Action Fund | 80,550 | -- | -- |
| SFA Partnership Project | 71,768 | -- | -- |
| Concession Card | 190,314 | -- | -- |
| Young Scot Activities | 25,438 | -- | -- |
| Youth Events | 14,801 | -- | -- |
| Media Strategy | 389,408 | -- | -- |
| Total | 812,317 | -- | -- |
| Adult/Parent Programme | |||
| Adult/Parent Programme | 178,637 | -- | -- |
| Adult/Media Strategy | 608,770 | -- | -- |
| Total | 787,407 | -- | -- |
| Business/Commerce Programme | |||
| Business Support | 7,275 | -- | -- |
| Education in the Workplace | 66,937 | -- | -- |
| Total | 74,212 | -- | -- |
| Public Relations | |||
| Communications Strategy | -- | (26)19,000 | (27)-- |
| Young People Programme | |||
| Primary School Initiative | -- | (26)130,000 | (27)-- |
| Adult/Parent Programme | |||
| Drugs in the Workplace | -- | (26)131,000 | (27)-- |
(26) Estimated out-turn
(27) Uncommitted
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| £ | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project | 1997-98 | 1998-99 | (28)1999-2000 | ||||
| Glasgow City Council Parks and Recreation Department | 14,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Govan Initiative Ltd | 10,146 | -- | -- | ||||
| Enhance RDP (Turning point) | 34,133 | -- | -- | ||||
| Queen of the South FC | 10,200 | -- | -- | ||||
| Motherwell Athletics Club | 52,700 | -- | -- | ||||
| Renfrewshire Council | 11,400 | -- | -- | ||||
| Evening Times | 40,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Health Promotions--Grampian Health Board | 50,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Friends of Craigmillar | 20,667 | -- | -- | ||||
| Paisley Partnership | 11,050 | -- | -- | ||||
| Drumchapel Community Drugs Forum | 10,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| North Lanarkshire Council Education Department | 16,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Drumchapel Adventure Group | 12,940 | -- | -- | ||||
| Greater Easterhouse Development Co Ltd. | 17,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Fablevision | 32,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Calton Athletic Recovery Group | 50,000 | -- | |||||
| Lanark Road Project | 11,136 | -- | -- | ||||
| Govan Youth Access Project | 10,500 | -- | -- | ||||
| Forfar Drugs Initiative Group | 23,000 | -- | -- | ||||
| Drumchapel Adventure Group | -- | 14,000 | 33,110 | ||||
| Evening Times | -- | 5,000 | 45,000 | ||||
| Drumchapel Drugs Forum | -- | 5,000 | 12,200 | ||||
| Simpson House | -- | 11,120 | 11,125 | ||||
| Renfrewshire Council Education and Leisure Services | -- | 6,000 | 13,984 | ||||
| Mayfield and Easthouses Manse Project | -- | 25,350 | -- | ||||
| Renfrewshire Council Social Work Department | -- | 25,440 | -- | ||||
| Central Scotland NHS Trust Community Addiction | -- | 14,481 | -- | ||||
| Media Education | -- | 12,750 | 12,755 | ||||
| Mastrick Youth Cafe | -- | 26,000 | -- | ||||
| Community Athletics 2000 | -- | 41,000 | -- | ||||
| Govan Youth Access Project | -- | 10,000 | -- | ||||
| Tayside Police | -- | 20,000 | -- | ||||
| South Lanarkshire Council | -- | 26,666 | -- | ||||
| Tayside Police | -- | 7,333 | 7,333 | ||||
| Scottish Football Association | -- | 50,000 | -- | ||||
| Health Promotion, Grampian Health Board | -- | 50,000 | -- | ||||
| Fablevision | -- | 34,150 | -- | ||||
| Renfrewshire Council | -- | 11,200 | -- | ||||
| Friends of Craigmillar | -- | 20,775 | 11,600 | ||||
| Glasgow City Council Cultural and Leisure Services | -- | 28,280 | -- |
(28) Committed
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Rough Sleepers Initiative
Mr. Swinney:
To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will provide a breakdown of all allocations of money over £10,000 made under the rough sleepers initiative in the financial year 1997-98 indicating allocations over £10,000 already made under the initiative for financial years 1998-99 and 1999-2000; what is the
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total available under the initiative for each of the next three financial years; and what percentage of this will be under the control of the Scottish Parliament. [65953]
Mr. Macdonald
[holding answer 18 January 1999]: The breakdown of allocations of over £10,000 made under the Rough Sleepers Initiative on 1997-98 and 1998-99, including allocations for the year 1999-2000, was as follows:
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