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To ask the Scottish Executive whether research in universities is best stimulated and promoted by targeting funding at the best departments or by encouraging improvement in other departments.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 February 2001
. £1.5 million has been allocated by the Scottish Executive over the financial years 2001-2002 to 2003-2004 to assist the further development of the NTO network in Scotland, with a particular focus on promoting skills, employability and work-based learning at sectoral level.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 February 2001
To ask the Presiding Officer whether the City of Edinburgh Council has been asked to promote a Road Closure Order for Holyrood Road and, if so, how far such a request has been progressed by the council.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 October 2000
In its annual guidance letter to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, in February this year, we encouraged the promotion of better commercialisation and the continuation of funding streams to support this.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 October 2000
We welcome the establishment of the Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners, which we expect to promote and maintain high standards of competence, practice, discipline and ethics amongst forensic science practitioners.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to promote the opening of a railway station at Edinburgh Park and what funding it will make available to facilitate this.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it will take to promote improvements in the standard of bathing waters at the seven Scottish bathing beaches recently found to have failed to meet the European Union's minimum standards.
The Scottish Executive welcomes discounted fares initiatives such as the Moray Fare Travel Scheme which promotes greater accessibility to public transport for young people.
To ask the First Minister what measures are being taken to increase the employment opportunities of those in Scotland's most disadvantaged areas. We are committed to promoting social justice and equality of opportunity for everyone in Scotland, and this includes increasing the employment rates of groups that are disadvantaged in the labour market.We now ha...