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One of the reasons why the package that we hope to agree within the next few days will take time to phase in is that we need to recruit those new teachers. It will not be possible in the first year to do that, because many of the new teachers will still have to be trained.
Five hundred farms are now involved in the scheme, and 400,000 hectares of Scottish farmland are now being converted into organic production. That is meeting a genuinely new demand in the market and is good news for rural Scotland.
I welcome everybody to the first meeting in 2001 of the Transport and the Environment Committee and wish you all a happy new year—the new year seems some time ago now but, none the less, this is our first meeting of the year.The committee has a number of new members.
Part of the reason why people are still saying that is that, although the COPFS gives information to its staff about new initiatives and new staff who are coming in, pressure arises from the need to absorb the changes and the new information.
Some of you might have noticed in the press today that Asda is the latest company to join others in the food sector in taking up the cudgels for Gaelic.
We believe that the use of dogs underground is a necessary control measure in extended rough country.As the committee knows, the Scottish Executive released the latest income figures for Scotland's hill farms a week ago.
We know that one third of children intervene to protect their mothers and that children whose mothers are abused are themselves at great risk of physical assault. The latest figures suggest that between 40 and 60 per cent of such children have been assaulted.
The possible siting of a new freight loop at Reston by the Strategic Rail Authority does not appear to provide a suitable opportunity to build a new station, as the petitioners had hoped.