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(S2O-8732) The new ways economic development strategy is the Scottish Borders community planning partnership's long-term strategy to diversify the economy.
However, until such time as the European Commission's proposals are developed and turned into new frameworks and guidelines, it is too early to assess the impact.
Tourism (Highlands) To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to promote tourism in the Highlands. (S1O-2757) The new strategy for Scottish tourism, which we published last February, contains many new actions designed to grow tourism throughout Scotland.
The First Minister has said that he understands that the latest loss of 161 jobs is a hammer blow and that the Kintyre peninsula will be a priority, as it has been for Argyll and the Islands Enterprise for the past couple of years.
However, within those hospitals, some of which I visited on Monday, there is quite an age difference—buildings range from being very new to being almost on their last legs.
The information is available for each local authority area.Information is currently available up to the end of September 2001. Figures for the latest quarter July-September 2001 were published in Table 8 of the Scottish Executive Quarterly Housing Trends Bulletin HSG/2002/1.
To ask the Scottish Executive why Scottish economic growth rates have failed to match UK growth rates in recent years. Latest data show that quarterly growth in Scotland is broadly in line with the UK, although year on year growth is slower.