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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-5625 by Henry McLeish on 10 April 2000, what issues will the Minister raise with DAKS Simpson when he visits the company and when will that visit take place.
That is always going to be a better way of dealing with things than is setting up a committee to consider the comparative merits of different proposals.The corporate body proposal is to have a body of MSPs making those decisions.
I absolutely agree with your suggestion that we hold a meeting in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs area, but I would not like us simply to visit the Cairngorms without holding a meeting.
In percentage terms, how much influence do you think the convener of the education committee has when key decisions are made, compared to the influence of, say, the council leader?
Our management and administration costs compare very favourably indeed with other RDAs.There is a limit to what I can say about the issues in Dundee, which are the subject of legal appeal.
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Date answered:
9 August 2001
Funding the Scottish Parliament, National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly - A Statement of Funding Policy sets out the comparabilities that operate at a Departmental level.
It is good that the Justice 2 Committee is able to address the issue.I was unable to visit Cornton Vale on either of the two dates on which committee members made visits.