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The Scottish Prison Service's response was that one new prison has no completion date until the contract is awarded "in due course", and that one new prison is now under the planning appeal process, which could take some considerable time.
Although we have previously considered sentencing policy, we have not done so in respect of young people; we have not considered Christmas opening hours; and we have not considered the sportscotland consultation. Those were all new issues for us, but this petition does not raise a new issue.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it has taken to create new direct international air links. The Scottish Executive, through its Route Development Fund, has made 21 offers on potential new routes from Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive what new initiatives will be introduced to increase teacher numbers to 53,000 by 2007, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will publish a summary of responses to its consultation on new guidelines and policy for mobile phone masts and when it expects to bring forward new legislation and/or guidelines as a result.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will specify a minimum megabyte capacity for telecommunications infrastructure in new residential buildings and, if so, what this capacity will be.