Chamber and committees

Only a small number of farmers' markets in Scotland have been assisted under the LEADER II Programme. In these cases, funding was directed towards initial costs such as assistance towards incorporation of Angus Farmers' Market as a friendly society and a study investigating the feasibility of running a market in the Borders. The only information available on the impact of farmers' markets as a result of funding was that the Inverness market did not have a negative impact on local businesses. Prior to all markets being suspended owing to foot-and-mouth disease, those markets which received funding were still operating.

Prince's Trust representatives in Scotland have been invited to make a presentation to Executive officials on the report which raises some important and challenging issues. Many of its findings are relevant to current policy initiatives or developments affecting young people, including direct and customised consultation with young people.

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Executive officials have met a range of voluntary and statutory agencies and parents themselves to discuss the provision of parenting support. We are giving careful consideration to the best way forward, recognising the importance of building upon existing support mechanisms for parents which work.

Existing guidance provided by the Scottish Executive Education Department and Learning and Teaching Scotland to education authorities and schools already emphasise the benefits to pupils' health and general well-being of providing a balanced and varied programme of sport and other forms of physical education within the school curriculum.Sportscotland works closely with education authorities in a number of programmes, targeted at primary and secondary schools, which aim to promote and increase the level and range of sporting and physical activity of school-aged children during and after school hours.The need to encourage positive healthy lifestyles, which would include sporting activity, is highlighted in the Scottish drug strategy, and in a range of initiatives designed to encourage positive school ethos and health promoting schools.

No alternative route is described in the Order. All of the works specified in that Order have been completed.

The Concession Agreement between the then Secretary of State for Scotland, now Scottish Ministers, and the Concessionaire forms part of the contract documentation relating to the Skye Bridge crossing. It is subject to provisions regarding confidentiality, as is normal in commercial contracts of this kind. Details of the provisions of the Agreement have not been published.

The change of the concessionaire's name from Skye Bridge Tolls Limited to Skye Bridge Limited in 1993 did not otherwise affect the rights or obligations of either party to the Concession Agreement. No formal notice of this change was therefore published.

Certification as a local instrument reflected the fact that the impact of the 1992 Toll Order was confined to the Skye Bridge crossing. The Appeal Court, High Court of Justiciary, in its decision dated 16 December 1999, rejected the submission that the Order required to be printed and sold in terms of the relevant legislation. Public notice was given of both the proposal to make, and the making of, the Order, and of the general effect of the Order.

No.