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In the past two years, apart from the achievements that I have described, there have been new schools and new developments in the health service and there is the prospect of massive change in housing.
Could the minister advise—not tell to do, but advise—the Scottish Tourist Board, of fond memory, that we would like it to spell its name properly again, because the spelling of the new name confuses visitors, never mind the rest of us?
Does she accept that that is part of a deliberate strategy, imposed by new Labour, to force those tenants into accepting that there is no alternative to housing stock transfer?
We are anxious that, having obtained evidence about underfunding and management—particularly from the top of the Procurator Fiscal Service—we progress the report's recommendations by consultation and partnership, which will be new to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
We are seeing imaginative initiatives through which young people are being engaged in new and different ways and outside the traditional times of youth provision.
The Scottish Library and Information Council has developed the matrix in partnership with local authorities, with new funding of £500,000 per year from the Scottish Executive.
The issue is one of guidance, in particular, as Fiona Hyslop said, on new schools. It might be considerably more difficult to ensure that every child gets access to a locker in existing schools.
Over the past five years or so, £6.2 million of that money has been invested in abattoirs to help towards"the cost of new buildings, refurbishment of existing buildings and purchase of new equipment".The letter points out that:"The new scheme, under the Scottish Rural Developm...