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Subject to the successful passage of the Waverley Railway (Scotland) Bill, the promoters of the Borders Railway estimate that it could be operational by 2008.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2004
The policy of the Scottish Executive is to promote tourism of all kinds, but the concept of educational tourism is not one that is recognised by our education colleagues or by VisitScotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will designate the western peripheral route around Aberdeen as a trunk road. No. The route is being promoted by Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Councils as part of their Integrated Transport Strategy.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to make funding available to Cruise Scotland and, if so, how much and when, and how it intends to promote tourism through cruise ships. No.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will initiate measures to promote any economic benefits of fox-hunting to rural Scotland in the light of the proposed ban of fox-hunting in England and Wales.
If the Scottish Executive commissioned work on new needs assessments in, for example, 2002, would you expect the Executive to be able to use those new needs assessments to distribute grant?
If I had been the chief executive of a council in 1995 and I had approached you and said, "It will be difficult for me to produce my latest set of accounts, because it is difficult for me to access a number of documents.