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Nicol Stephen, the Deputy Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs, had a helpful and productive meeting with schools' representatives last week. He is now due to visit the schools to discuss their specific needs in more detail.
When the Health Committee discussed petitions on 26 April last year, I sat there with some results on my knee about five members of our group—adults and children.
I intend to conclude item 1 by 10.15 at the latest; we have witnesses arriving from throughout the country so we need to stick to that timing.The first item on our agenda is consideration of the Holyrood report for November, which gives the latest information on the project's cost and programme.
Furthermore, the legislation will give partnerships access to some elements of the tax regime that they do not yet have. Do the new regulations mean that there will be other burdens for a new partnership under the Companies Act 1985?
I know that the Minister for Justice has been invited to visit the CAFE project in Arbroath and I understand that she hopes to visit it at some point in the near future.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 January 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what new crimes have been created since June 1999; how many persons have been charged under each of these crimes and, of these, how many have been convicted.
Members should remember that Iraq is a predominantly urban country of 26 million citizens.Two weeks ago, George Reid made an excellent speech in which he urged caution and calm, on the basis of the United Nations' estimates of casualties and after-war effects.