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It will provide enhanced rights in relation to both succession and information and, for the first time, there will be a right to a joint tenancy and a right to exchange, together with new duties on social landlords to promote tenant participation.
It sets out the wide range of the Scottish Executive's action on biodiversity and proposes reform of policy and law on the way in which we protect Scotland's special habitats and species. It establishes a new duty on Scottish ministers to have regard to biodiversity in exercising all our functions.
Scottish Arts Council To ask the Scottish Executive what process it is undertaking to seek public views on the appointment of a new chair of the Scottish Arts Council.
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.
(S1O-143) The sum of £100 million for IT resources has been allocated over the next three years, supported by £23 million from the new opportunities fund. We will announce shortly details of a scheme to help teachers to buy computers.