This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The Scottish Executive will co-operate fully with the Scottish Borders Tourist Board should it wish to promote alternative proposals to improve the designation of trunk road crossing points within their area of responsibility.
Mike Rumbles has outlined clearly the rationale that underpins the model of investigation of complaints that is detailed in the report.I shall focus on one or two points of contention that were raised by members of other committees.
Nicola Sturgeon makes a non-point. In the previous Cabinet, Jack McConnell was the Minister for Finance and was responsible for local government finance.
I hope that, as time goes by, they too will play in Scotland.Lord James Douglas-Hamilton, quite correctly, raised a key point when he welcomed the start that has been made.
I do not want to confuse matters further, but I feel the need to seek further clarification on the point. Like other areas of legislation, this is complex and difficult.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 February 2007
The Executive acknowledges thatcommunity nurses put the needs of patients/clients at the forefront of delivery.However, patients and carers told us that they wanted one single point of contactwith nursing services.
The reimbursementarrangements for these services and journeys have also been clarified with the busoperators in question, save for some points of detail relating to National Express.