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To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to create new direct international air links. The Scottish Executive, through its Route Development Fund, has made 21 offers on potential new routes from Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive what new initiatives will be introduced to increase teacher numbers to 53,000 by 2007, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish a summary of responses to its consultation on new guidelines and policy for mobile phone masts and when it expects to bring forward new legislation and/or guidelines as a result.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will specify a minimum megabyte capacity for telecommunications infrastructure in new residential buildings and, if so, what this capacity will be.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects to receive an invitation to the official opening of the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. There are, as yet, no plans for an official opening of the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
I like the idea of inviting constituents to the event.I will leave a question about paragraph 26. If we are trying to open up discussion and have a wider debate about Europe, it could be argued that having something like a discussion under the Chatham House rule—which allows people to speak off the record—would do the opposite.
I like the idea of inviting constituents to the event.I will leave a question about paragraph 26. If we are trying to open up discussion and have a wider debate about Europe, it could be argued that having something like a discussion under the Chatham House rule—which allows people to speak off the record—would do the opposite.
If the problem exists, it may not be as big a deal as I am being told, but we should look into it. Paragraphs 25 and 26 of Maureen Macmillan's report describe ecological balance and the perceived lack of such balance.