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We are attracting international companies to bring new investment into Scotland, such as Barclays, which recently announced 500 new jobs, First Data, which announced 430 new jobs, Shell, which announced 100 new jobs, BSkyB, J P Morgan, ...
Waste Water Services To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that waste water services are not adversely affected by new housing developments. (S2O-6969) Where Scottish Water believes that the waste water infrastructure is inadequate to support a proposed new development, it will advise the local planning a...
New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh(Food Hygiene) To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has to intervene if it is dissatisfied with food hygiene standards at the new royal infirmary of Edinburgh.
Do you agree that if Sunday working and Christmas and new year holiday working were normalised, that might impinge on the terms and conditions of workers who already have to work at Christmas and new year on a rotation basis?
My immediate reaction to that suggestion—which was a new suggestion that I had not heard before—was to agree to go away and consider it further with ministers.
Treatment of parliamentary staff is covered, but I understand the point that you are making. Should we incorporate a new paragraph to cover conduct in the parliamentary buildings as well as in committee and in the chamber?
I believe that the Scottish Parliament can be good for Scotland's fishing, albeit only under new management. In recognition of the importance of Scottish fisheries to Europe, I can reveal that the European Parliament's Committee on Fisheries will visit Scottish fishing areas in June 2000 and that the new fisheries commissioner, Franz Fischler, will come on a separate trip in the new year.