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I have received no apologies.The first item on the agenda is to decide whether to discuss the following items in private: first, our consideration of the question whether we should pay expenses for the personal travel arrangements of certain witnesses to the aquaculture inquiry; secondly, our consideration of possible visits by the committee and its reporte...
Would the Executive be prepared to think about that before bringing into being another new commissioner? The Executive is obliged to ponder the creation of any new bodies and any decisions that it takes.
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the estimated population of raptors in Scotland. The latest available estimate of the raptor population in Scotland, excluding juvenile and non-breeding birds, is approximately 27,000 breeding pairs.
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Date answered:
24 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what is the estimated population of raptors in Scotland. The latest available estimate of the raptor population in Scotland, excluding juvenile and non-breeding birds, is approximately 27,000 breeding pairs.
For example, if the race-hate figures are rising, they will get high news coverage, but it is difficult to get news coverage on the fact that community relations are improving.