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However, on a recent Justice Committee visit to Cornton Vale, staff told us that mandatory drug testing was not helpful to them and had a negative impact.
To ask the Scottish Executive what has changed since the publication of the Report on the Review of Prison Visiting Committees, 2005 that has required a further consultation on the independent monitoring of prisons.
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Date answered:
16 December 2010
The members of the Tourism, Cultural Heritage and Community Liaison Group who will advise on mitigation are: (a) the local authorities for the areas in which the development is situated; (b) Scottish Natural Heritage; (c) Historic Scotland; (d) the Forestry Commission; (e) Visit Scotland, and (d) the National Trust for Scotland.
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Date answered:
17 March 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many officials accompanied the Minister for Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change on his visit to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference; what the mode and class of travel was in each case, and what the total cost was.
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Date answered:
4 November 2009
The Scottish Government is satisfied that swallows visiting Scotland in summer fall within the definition of wild birds for the purposes of Part 1 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, since Section 27 of the Act defines a wild bird for those purposes as any bird of a species which is ordinarily resident in or is a visitor to Great Britain in a wild sta...
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Date answered:
23 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-22914 by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 May 2009, whether the pilot visits have been evaluated and, if so, whether the evaluation will be published.
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Date answered:
4 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, following the comments of the First Minister on the BBC programme Good Morning Scotland on 21 August 2009 that the Cabinet Secretary for Justice received advice from officials in the Justice and Communities Directorate on the decision to visit Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi at HMP Greenock, whether it agrees that the conten...
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Date answered:
4 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the (a) Lord Advocate or (b) First Minister were consulted prior to the Cabinet Secretary for Justice visiting Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi in HMP Greenock on 5 August 2009 and what the nature was of any advice or opinion given by them.