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Indeed, over the summer recess, the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth and I visited many parts of Scotland and met representatives of VisitScotland as well as very many tourism businesses.
As we will all have noticed when visiting our local shops and supermarkets in our communities, the public are on board and are changing their behaviour, with more and more taking bags for life with them to the supermarket.
However, if a Google search by anyone who was thinking of visiting Scotland led them to that website, it would not set a good example—especially in our homecoming year—because it is not up to date.
It will undoubtedly make the process of visits by inspectors and officials of various types easier to cope with, because a range of Government agencies will deliver through a single client manager.
We will hear from Mr Doyle about his response, but you sent the letter within 24 hours of the meeting—why? Each visit to the college involves me in a 130-mile round trip.
If the person stays at home and just gets a few hours of extra visits, it will be Cordia, in Glasgow’s case, that will pay for somebody to provide that.
As others have done, I particularly thank the young people who took part in the inquiries and, outside the committee’s meetings, in some of our visits, during which we heard some of the most important and compelling evidence and discussion that took place during the inquiries.
Organisations such as the Scottish Women’s Institute, local farmers, NFU Scotland and tenant farmer associations are all at the heart of those events and of their communities.
We are told that a decision will be made in the summer—fingers crossed, given that Longannet is the last man standing in the UK demonstrator competition. Is Charles Hendry visiting Longannet today? No, he is visiting the Parliament today and will take part in a session on electricity market reform that will take plac...
It would be a great loss if we saw a significant reduction in exchange visits, which is why we are trying to encourage as much flexibility as possible.