Current status: Answered by Donald Dewar on 30 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what contact members and staff of the Executive have had with the Observer newspaper regarding the reports of 26 September 1999 and in particular whether there was any such contact with the newspaper before 26 September and, if so, whether it will specify the dates such contact took place.
I refer the Member to my statement to Parliament today concerning Beattie Media and professional lobbying firms.