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To ask the Scottish Executive how many sites proposed for new schools have been (a) investigated and (b) rejected due to environmental concerns about the land in each of the last nine years.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the staffing will be of the new VisitScotland region into which VisitOrkney will be absorbed under the reorganisation of VisitScotland, outlining where each of the staff will be based.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what effect the Agricultural Wages Board’s most recent award is having on attracting young people as agricultural workers and new entrants to the farming industry.
What steps will be taken to ensure that new entrants to the profession have high-level literacy and numeracy skills, and that those skills are regularly refreshed?
The activities might not necessarily be particularly new; it might be a refinement of the definition of the scale of activities that makes the change in the legislation.
Accessible geological material in a store that is operated by a public body is useful both in the teaching of new generations of students and in identifying new possibilities for hydrocarbon extraction.The issue is also clearly relevant to the enormous challenge of achieving successful carbon storage.
However, as Richard Baker indicated, subsection (9) of the new section that the amendment would insert in the bill includes"other bodies, individuals and businesses."
For those two reasons—we are a comparatively new organisation, which has thought through some first principles in the context of a new Parliament, and our nation is a certain size—we can often offer particularly relevant thoughts, advice and support to those countries.I will stop there.
The easiest way to clarify the difference is to take new recruits as an example. A whole-time new recruit would do 16 weeks' training at the Scottish fire service training school at Gullane and would then embark on a 45-module training programme that is designed to make them competent in three years.