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I note from Malcolm Chisholm's response of 26 January to a question from Elaine Smith that the Executive will have spent around £954,000 over five years on the promotion of breastfeeding—it proposes to spend £230,000 this year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive Scottish Executive what the estimated number is of major events or VIP or royal visits anticipated to the City of Edinburgh for the year from July 2000.
We must recognise the fact that simply bringing in civic studies will not result in people voting at the age of 26, 36 or whatever. The issue is getting them to participate in the democratic process, and a large part of that depends on literacy.
Sometimes, we must just accept that guys and girls cannot do the new job, so we have to find sensible and humane ways of letting them leave the business or find them a new job and bring in new people with new skills.
As I have already mentioned, Tom McCabe will tell us about the Executive's EU priorities on 28 February.The next documents provide the results of the green paper consultation on defence procurement, which the committee identified as an issue that it wanted to follow. The paper gives us the latest position. If my memory serves me correctly, it was Mr Gallie ...
Therefore, it is a matter for yourself and this committee to find ways of resolving that situation.We have only to consider the latest Unison action—I will not talk about the specifics of its case.
Paragraph 76 was rewritten, but I mention it only because of the extent of the new wording. I have added a new sentence at the end of the paragraph, which I thought that I should run by members.
The legislation is in place and the partnerships have got off the ground and are taking stock. New documents have been coming from them and new plans have been evolving.