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Fresh Talent Initiative To ask the Scottish Executive what opportunities the accession of 10 new member states to the European Union provides for the fresh talent initiative.
What progress has been made in Scotland on the UK Government's campaign to get more small and medium-sized businesses involved in Government procurement, a move that was recommended in the "[email protected]" report?
In registering my interest, I thank the Parliamentary Bureau for picking this vexed question for debate today. Hoping that his head is not getting too big this afternoon, I too welcome the new Deputy Minister for Sport and Culture to his role.
The main new approaches to changing eating behaviours in these groups and details of research carried out or being carried out is shown below.Schoolchildren.
I know of one chap whose business went bust and who was dying to get rid of his properties. He would have loved a compulsory purchase order to be served on them, simply to get rid of them.
Local authorities throughout Scotland are being forced down the PPP route—the only choice is to take it or leave it—because funding is not available unless they go down that route. The petition asks us to get the Executive to debate the use of PPP, but the Executive will be reluctant to do that.
Given today's news about Motorola, the news about Compaq and other situations, I do not think that anyone in the committee would disagree with that aspiration.We must consider our response to Duncan McNeil's letter.
We have not been able to move that forward but will do so as soon as we can. We have to get a handle on all the requests that are coming in and arrange a timetable.