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My rural constituency of West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine has three salmon rivers, and people have contacted me to express their concern. We need to have the latest information from the Executive.
Does he believe that the use of new technology in language learning, such as that used in the innovative project in my area—which the First Minister has visited—would be helpful in establishing the case for any such agency to come to Scotland?
In the years to come we will have to watch that to ensure that we are keeping up with all the latest trends and all the latest technology, which is vital.
Last week, as a result of those efforts, more than 1,700 new or returning donors gave blood. I thank the minister for that reply and I am encouraged by it.
Tourism To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it intends to take to address the decline in the number of tourists visiting Scotland. (S1O233) The Deputy Minister for Highlands and Islands and Gaelic (Mr Alasdair Morrison): I will publish a new strategy for the industry around the end of the year.
In the next session, it will be for the new Executive, the new Parliamentary Bureau, the new Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body and the new Conveners Group to consider how to space legislation through the four years so that we do not...
More than one in three children in lone parent households suffer long-term illness or disability. The latest Government research, which was published a couple of months ago, shows that 55 per cent of children in one parent families live in poverty.
However, Postcomm's role as regulator and the universal postal service are matters that are reserved to Westminster.Like Phil Gallie, I suggest that we have gone as far as we can with the petitions. If the new procedures do not develop in the way that the minister has promised, it will be open to the committee to come back to the issue in the new session of Parliament.