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To ask the Scottish Executive how many copies of Rural Scotland: A New Approach were printed and how much it cost to publish and distribute this document. 2,000 copies of Rural Scotland: A New Approach were printed.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many deputy fiscals were employed in each year since 1996 and how many new deputy fiscals were appointed in each year since 1996.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to retain the existing A1 between Haddington and Dunbar as a trunk road once the new dual carriage way between Haddington and Dunbar has been completed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 February 2000
An amendment to the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations was laid in the Scottish Parliament on 14 December 1999, to come into force on 17 April 2000, introducing substantial new provisions to give disabled people access to new dwellings.
I am not in a position to judge whether that evidence is correct or is the best evidence and it is difficult to study such things. The bill will give cohabitation a new status—one cannot create a new entity in law without creating a new status.
The Scottish Prison Service's response was that one new prison has no completion date until the contract is awarded "in due course", and that one new prison is now under the planning appeal process, which could take some considerable time.