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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the preferred areas identified by local authorities in their indicative forestry strategies are sufficient to enable new planting to be doubled over the next 20 years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2000
Accordingly, we wish to amend the two references in our bill to that clause of the Learning and Skills Bill to ensure that they refer to the latest version.Amendment 4 ensures that any section references in the bill to what will become the Learning and Skills Act 2000 can be updated through regulations.
Although we want there to be parity of esteem, the Parliament is new, shiny and glossy; local government's image is not new, shiny and glossy, so people's focus perhaps will be more on the Parliament.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2007
In the recent spending review, additional funds were allocated to the continuation of the Route Development Fund which will allow new routes commencing in the next two to three years to be supported.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 2004
There are remaining challengesto address but implementation of the cancer strategy is making good progress with£25 million recurrent investment in equipment, staffing and new ways of workingto improve services for patients.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 October 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) prevalence and (b) incidence of new cases of serious mental illness was in each prison in each of the last three years.