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I have written many letters requesting meetings and visits. I hope that Mr Finnie and Ms Boyack, his new deputy, will come to Mallaig—I think that the day that I asked Sarah Boyack to come was the day on which she was appointed last week, actually.
On 17 January, Henry McLeish announced the membership of the new knowledge economy task force. Its first meeting took place on 26 January, and we expect an initial report by April of this year.
We want transparency and fairness in the amounts that will be taken from local government and health boards to pay for the new arrangements, and in the level of fees that the new bodies will charge.
Some communities have access to cars and will use the expensive new motorways that the Executive is promoting, whereas other communities do not have that access and their lives will be blighted by the new motorways.
Brian Adam is absolutely right; we must work more closely with the planning system in order to ensure that new bus services follow new industrial or housing developments.