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It is a pleasure to be here and we welcome the committee's inquiry. Scottish Enterprise has a new leadership, with Sir John Ward as chairman, me as chief executive and a substantially new board.
The Executive has some way to go in that area, but we are starting to consider it seriously. We are only two years into this new form of democracy and new form of government in Scotland and it will take us a while to get that sorted out.
Why should we accept as applications telephone calls, personal visits and conversations? We appreciate the arguments for freedom of information requests to be in writing or in electronic format.
That would ensure that we do not revisit the problems that we had with temporary sheriffs—who have been shoring up the system—with the new office of part-time sheriff.I move amendment 7.
The capital figures over the three years from 1999 to 2002—you say that most of that cost is due to the Holyrood project and the new building—amount to what has been reported as the total cost of the Holyrood build.
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Date answered:
11 October 2006
For example, a number of theclosures set out in the following table are of schools which have merged toform new schools in new buildings, replacing unsatisfactory accommodation inthe previous buildings.
The new approach will be fairer, more consistent and more transparent.Retrospective analyses of waitingtimes for hospital treatment compiled from SMR01 returns are based on data thatdoes not record whether patients have had an ASC applied.