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If the Scottish Executive commissioned work on new needs assessments in, for example, 2002, would you expect the Executive to be able to use those new needs assessments to distribute grant?
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Date answered:
14 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what analysis has been carried out of the impact of financial and transport barriers on visitors who (a) wish to visit or (b) have visited the Parliament; what the findings were of any such analysis, and whether any resultant measures are planned to assist the public and schools from rural and remote areas to visit the Parliament.
Under those new arrangements, teams from fire and rescue services from London, Cheshire, Tyne and Wear, Leicestershire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester all attended in support of Strathclyde fire brigade.
It can stick with the original regime, which closes down the boxes, or it can adopt the new regime, which opens the boxes but removes the markets for the product.
That is precisely why this Government has ensured that the Management of Offenders etc (Scotland) Act 2005, the new community justice authorities, new rehabilitation programmes, investment of more than £1 million a week in the structure of our prisons, the new measures in our ...
It is my understanding that that appointment has not yet been made. As the committee will recall, a new chief executive of SFEFC has recently assumed office.
I cannot agree with anything John Swinburne said about the benefits of quangos in the new towns of Scotland. I represent a new town and I am sitting next to two colleagues who were born and brought up in new towns.
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Date answered:
12 March 2007