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Scottish Tourist Board To ask the Scottish Executive what the anticipated costs are for the recruitment of a new chief executive to the Scottish Tourist Board.
I understand that Lothian Health is currently developing a programme of cessation counselling that will take account of this new weapon in the armoury against smoking.
Therefore, members should ensure that all mobile phones are switched off.Secondly, I welcome Linda Orton, who is the new assistant clerk to the committee; members will already have received e-mails and correspondence from her.
I do, however, remain committed to investing £100million of public capital in the development of a gold standard new children’s hospital.This is over and above the basic formula allocation which is approximately £100million per annum.
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Date answered:
28 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the Department of Trade and Industry’s responsibility for reaching a justification decision on new nuclear power stations would have on the power of the Scottish minister with responsibility for planning to stop the building of new nuclear power stations in Scotland.
This will look at thenumber of new trains required and potential costs for all of our projects,including EARL, and passenger growth initiatives from 2009 onwards.A completed plan will beproduced for consideration by Transport Scotland later in 2006.