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We will support businesses in grasping the opportunities of the new economy, invest in research and development, support new entrepreneurs and sustain the vital link that transforms the ideas of the laboratory into new product manufacture.
He suggested that a benefit of the proposed new policy is that it would weed out some applications and ensure that new applications from the industry are substantive.
The idea came from that briefing that if the Executive were considering any new scheme, it should perhaps run it past this report to see exactly what the new scheme's impact would be on agriculture.
I hope that you enjoy yourself in your new, more junior, committee.This is also the last meeting that Judith Evans will clerk because, unfortunately, she is also leaving us.
(S1O-6703) In a parliamentary answer to Alasdair Morrison on 20 March, I announced that Loganair had been awarded the contract for the Barra to Glasgow air service for 2003-04 and that we would tender a new contract from April 2004 to March 2006.
We are working hard to achieve those objectives. The new products and services divisions of Kvaerner Energy Ltd in Clydebank have been bought by GE Caledonian, which is a huge success story.
We have delivered more than 500 separate public transport measures—new trains, new stations, new rail links and new ferries—and next year, for the first time, we will be spending more than £1 billion on transport.
We will develop the matter in discussion with the minister and I hope that we will produce amendments that deal with the committee's comments. Meeting suspended until 15:26 and thereafter continued in private until 16:39.
Our two growth spots are Edinburgh and Aberdeen, but only 26 per cent of major planning applications in Edinburgh are processed in time and the figure is similar for Aberdeen.