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To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for the provision of destination marketing support in respect of new air routes. The Route Development Fund does not currently provide marketing support for new air routes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2001
Any economic assessment of the proposed new ferry service between Gill's Bay and Orkney is primarily a commercial matter for the promoters of the project.
So the amount left will be £55 million less £29 million. Yes. That leaves £26 million. We might expect that to be topped up in part from EYF, if ministers choose to operate the same 75:25 rule as before.
I hope that we can continue to develop it in the debate that is being promoted by the committee and in the debate that is being promoted by the Executive.
It is part of the Hanson plc group and is a huge enterprise.We realise that the waste has to go somewhere, but the latest development was a bridge too far so we had to protest.