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The Scottish Government continues to engage regularly with the UK Government at both official and ministerial level and I hope to meet with the new European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services during his next visit to Brussels. S3W-32790
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 February 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive how many visiting specialist PE teachers there have been in secondary schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 January 2010
The Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body is aware of this good practice and already allows its staff paid time off to attend the mobile transfusion service when it visits the Parliament. S3W-30250
Questions and Answers
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, (a) when and (b) where the pilot visits anticipated to commence in May 2009 actually commenced.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many UK ministers have carried out official visits to Scotland requiring police attendance and support in each year since 1997.
To ask the Scottish Executivehow many officers were deployed by constabularies across Scotland to police official visits by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Executivehow many officers were deployed by constabularies across Scotland to police official visits by the Home Secretary in each year since 1999.
Similar legislation covering procurement activities in the rest of the UK is going through Westminster, and the UK Government is aware of what is going on and is being kept informed of the wording of the legislation at every stage. I do not doubt that comparable legislation has been introduced at Westminster.
We were concerned that the use of end-year flexibility was muddying the waters and making it difficult to compare the trends in one year with those in another, particularly when capital works, for example, were taken into account.