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To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to establish state-run hotels, similar to the Spanish parador, where listed buildings could be restored to provide accommodation for tourists and where holiday itineraries could include visits to facilities such as the Summerlee Heritage Museum in Coatbridge.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 August 2001
The Scottish Executive is responsible for transport other than in those areas set out in Schedule 5 (E) of the Scotland Act 1998.The remits of Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and Visit Scotland do not extend to transport.
Given a prisoner's right to medical confidentiality, and as there is currently only one prisoner within HM Prison, Zeist, no details can be disclosed about any visits by health care professionals to HM Prison, Zeist.
The First Minister and other Scottish Ministers will meet the Taoiseach on 20 June, when he visits Scotland as the guest of the First Minister and the Secretary of State for Scotland, and will discuss a range of issues of common interest.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether guidance has been issued to hoteliers and others involved in the tourist industry about the conduct of their guests when visiting rural areas. The “Come Back Code” which we launched on 23 March sets out guidelines on how the public should behave in the countryside in order to minimise the risk of spreading foot-and-mou...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 September 2000
The GCS also provides for the transportation of UK Ministers when in Scotland, office bearers of the Scottish Parliament, officials, visiting dignitaries and the judiciary.
It is important that there is proper guidance that allows people to make those judgments and we will do our best to ensure that such guidance is available.
The letter explains the fact that the new body would not have charitable status under the bill as drafted, but it is the same body that is at issue again, and that concerns me.
I congratulate the task force on the report, which has shed new light on major and important housing problems.The evidence shows clearly the extent of the task in the private housing sector, in which 348,000 houses are in a state of critical disrepair and 26 per cent have repair defects in their building fabric that ...