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Child Care Strategy To ask the Scottish Executive why the first priority in its child care strategy as set out in "Making it work together—a programme for government", of setting up a new national child care information line by December 1999, has not been delivered.
(S1O-737) The Deputy Minister for Justice (Angus MacKay): On 11 August, I announced that £3 million would be made available in the financial year 2000-01 to fund the new "Make Our Communities Safer" challenge competition.
Our aim is to improve bus quality and frequency by giving a statutory basis to quality partnerships, by setting new standards for timetabling, through ticketing and enforcement, and by making arrangements for quality contracts where appropriate.
Commencement on 1 September will allow us time to put in place the training that health professionals and others will need to help them to implement the new legislation as effectively as possible.
When our intention to implement our new planning controls was announced in July, I also announced that I would meet the companies over the summer months to discuss with them what those commitments would mean in practice and what would be expected of the operators in the context of the new planning regime.