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In education, we have more teachers and more new schools, all heading towards the coalition objective of a better educated Scotland.We also see positive changes emerging from our support for transport, especially the promotion of public transport.
It is a United Kingdom-wide national retail service. The new Horizon computer system should have tremendous potential for developing new business and new ideas for the network.
Our difficulty in projecting what the costs might be is that, at this point in time, we are not certain what the new measures will result in. Much of the financial memorandum makes assumptions about the new demands that will arise from the bill, the new duties on councils and the new powers to provide services.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2005
These groups oversee the implementation of the UK Powering Vehicles Strategy, which aims to promote the development and take-up of new vehicle technologies and cleaner fuels, including biofuels in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 November 2004
Visitscotland.com is a world-class information andbooking facility which is playing a vital role in promoting tourism in Scotland. Likemany new businesses of this kind, it was always anticipated that it would take anumber of years before it made profits.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-27798 by Iain Gray on 19 August 2002, whether it will establish a national centre for women's enterprise to promotenew businesses run by women and disseminate best practice.
It is clear from the structure of the bill that the new body will follow closely the Paris principles, which the United Nations issued to recommend to national Governments ways in which human rights matters can be promoted within national states.