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Mr Michael Howard's desire to sook up to Murdoch by disconnecting the BBC from its core public service obligation and by supporting the efforts of News International to become the most significant provider of news is well understood.
The analysis of the draft budget can be discussed again on 26 September. As the Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform will not come to talk about the budget until our external meeting in November, we still have a bit of time.Before we begin, I ask Arthur Midwinter to say something about an error that he has found in the draft budget document.
I note from Malcolm Chisholm's response of 26 January to a question from Elaine Smith that the Executive will have spent around £954,000 over five years on the promotion of breastfeeding—it proposes to spend £230,000 this year.
To ask the Scottish Executive by how much employment has risen since 1997. The latest figures (August to October 2001) show the employment level for all people over 16 in Scotland to be 2,382,000.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the latest figure is for the cost of improving Glasgow City Council's housing stock following the proposed stock transfer.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 October 2000
The number of students in each dental school who have completed training is shown in the following table. The information is the latest available.YearDundeeGlasgowTotal199747751221998426710919996065125 S1W-09939
The other priority for us to discuss is the proposed visit to Ingliston to meet the NFU. As we are inviting the leader of the NFU to visit us at our next meeting, we may be able to sort that out on or around that date.
The minister concedes that there are a number of errors in the regulations, so he intends to revoke them and lay new regulations. That is a good decision.