This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The Scottish Parliament information centre briefing on the agriculture inquiry is shown in brackets as it will take place on 26 June only if the committee has no other urgent business on that day—if the briefing does not take place then, it will be added to the previous week's agenda.I note that the two-weekly programme that we have set out would mean that ...
Do you know the current level of staff sickness? The latest figure that we have for sickness absence between April 2000 and March 2001 is 4.64 per cent.
It must be remembered that the competition acts prevent competition because they do not allow new producers into the market. In Denmark, France, New Zealand and the United States of America—the biggest free market of them all—new producers can easily enter the market because o...
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local authorities currently run direct payment schemes. Latest figures published by Direct Payments Scotland show that 17 local authorities are currently making direct payments.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 October 2001
Expenditure on research and development by businesses in Scotland amounted to £393 million in 1999, the latest year for which figures have been published by the Office for National Statistics.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the total expenditure was by the Scottish Arts Council on grants to projects by local authority area in the latest year for which figures are available.