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To ask the Presiding Officer from where the Kemnay Granite used in the construction of the new Parliament building has come. The Kemnay Granite used inthe construction of the new building came from Kemnay Quarry, Kemnay,Aberdeenshire.
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement it has in plans for a new Glasgow Gaelic Centre. The Executive is currently providing £25,000 a year in support of plans for a new Glasgow Gaelic Centre.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will take steps to ensure that the newly merged Scottish Opera and Scottish Ballet will have staff directors appointed to the new board. No. Membership is strictly a matter for the new board.
The legacy paper can be used as a kind of briefing on the work that has been done, to inform new members and to bring members who have been members of the Parliament but who are new to the committee up to date with what has been happening.
I welcome the general support for the committee's recommendations. Having met Karen Carlton, the new commissioner, I am confident that she is a suitably independent and feisty woman to carry out the job that she has been given.
The committee could also ask for an indication of whether the RCOG is reviewing and publishing new guidelines in the light of any new research evidence, as it suggested it would do within two years of the guidelines being published.