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Universities compensate for the comparatively low level of investment in research and development by business, which carries a significant cost to universities.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what estimate it has made of the value of Scotland’s economic, sporting and other cultural links with Argentina and how this compares with the value of such links with England.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 September 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an assessment has been made of the impact on greenhouse gas emissions of the removal of tolls on the Erskine bridge and how the results compare with any estimate based on traffic modelling before the tolls were removed.
Unlike in the TV soap operas, we did not wait two weeks; we waited six years. We had a weekly visit from a social worker, and I remember what the social worker asked us on those visits.
On top of that, if we look at total Scottish Government spend next year, we see that the figure is just over £34 billion. Let us compare that £34 billion with the £32 billion that the SNP Government had during its first full year in 2008-09.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it would protect the independence of prison visiting committees if their functions were integrated into HM Inspectorate of Prisons.