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To ask the Scottish Executive when the Minister for Transport will respond to my letter dated 26 August 2003 regarding flooding problems at Stirling Village, Peterhead.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will reply to my letter of 26 November 2001 to the Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care regarding Scottish Ambulance Service provision.
We recognised that there is an issue around the relationship of the organics sector both with the new arrangements following CAP reform and with the new concept of land management contracts, which the Executive is on record as saying that it would like to develop.
However, I was glad to hear that in February, the Minister for Health and Community Care, Susan Deacon, promised 50 new doctors and 50 new nurses for rural practices.
We have the opportunity to seize and harness the positive opportunity that can be brought to Scotland by the influx of a new population with new skills, or we can preside over the growth of a marginalised and excluded group that will be living in great poverty.