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When launching the draft Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Bill for consultation in April 2002, I announced my intention to include in the bill provisions that would give secure tenant farmers a pre-emptive right to buy their holding when the landlord intended to sell the land.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to encourage the development of flexible tenure schemes on the model of the buy back scheme used by Weslo Housing Management.
The Food Standards Agency will require enforcement authorities to ensure that standards are met, so that consumers have sufficient information to make informed choices about the food they buy. S1W-05520
There is no mention of it in the latest Scottish Homes consultation document on its race equality strategy, which leaves it up to housing providers to claim money in the name of ethnic minorities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for the Minister or Deputy Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning to visit Moray and, if a visit is planned, whom the Minister or Deputy Minister will meet.
Although there is no specific target associated with school nurses, the latest figures show that, at September 2004, there were 423 headcount qualified school nurses working in NHS Scotland.
We have received another letter from the Executive on having recourse to section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998, which enables Westminster to legislate on devolved areas. I invite views on the latest correspondence from the Executive, which refers to "Revision or Abolition of the Fertilisers Regulations 1991".
(S1O-522) The Minister for Health and Community Care (Susan Deacon): The latest figures show that 74.9 per cent of women who are diagnosed as having breast cancer will still be alive five years after diagnosis.
During my years as a councillor, we changed from leasing machinery to buying it out of capital to buying it out of revenue because of the Treasury rules that applied at the time.
Policy and practice is developing in this area, and we want to take further action where possible. I have visited some of the new units that are being developed partly through the alternatives to exclusion fund—notwithstanding Richard Lochhead's comments, I understand that such funding is being used to develop two new units in Aberdeenshire.