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In those circumstances, I will use the powers that I have, under standing orders and section 26 of the Scotland Act 1998, to require witnesses to give evidence under oath.
To ask the First Minister whether he has any plans to reshuffle the Cabinet. This will be a matter for the new First Minister once he or she takes up office.
Three of the major items on that committee's agenda concerned community planning issues that had been taken through the whole process and in which new council funding and new partnership funding had been invested.Community planning is beginning to work its way through.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 January 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to bring forward legislation to require sprinklers to be installed in all new and refurbished homes. No. S1O-02743
The SDEF is concerned that improvements will have to be implemented without any new money. Before the committee moves to close petition PE798, I suggest that members address the outstanding questions, look again at the Executive report and read the letter.
The museum has already lost its manager and the Executive has offered funding to assist the museum to advertise for a new manager to ensure that everything about which Alex Fergusson asks is in place, so he can see our commitment to the museum.
When parents met me earlier this week, they expressed concern that some children had received no science teaching for the first six weeks of the new school term. I ask the minister to take those issues seriously.