This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The basis for the potential biological removal (PBR) figures, which takes account of the latest population trends, can be found on the Marine Scotland web-site at: http://scotland.gov.uk/Topics/marine/Licensing/SealLicensing/PBR.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many school (a) groups and (b) pupils have gone on visits in each year as part of the heritage education travel subsidy scheme, also broken down by site. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-05962 on 7 March 2012.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2011
The criteria have been agreed with ministers and the assessment of individual sites is currently being progressed. The assessment criteria will be published in the near future when Ministers make decisions on Scotland’s Enterprise Areas.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 September 2011
As part of this exercise, we are also engaging with the UK Government on the potential availability of enhanced capital allowances towards manufacturing plant and machinery within some sites. We expect to make initial decisions on this issue during the autumn.
Our legal advisers have suggested that the regulations raise the question whether they relate to matters that are reserved by section F1 of part II of schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 and that, as such, the committee may wish to report them as raising a devolution issue.The matter was also raised in connection with the principal regulations—that is, the Council Tax Reduction (Scotland) Regulations 2012 (SSI 2012/303) and the Council Tax Reduction (State Pension Credit...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 February 2008
Discussions were held aroundopening times and visitor patterns. Each institution submitted confidentialinformation about their 2007 patterns to inform the SPCB’s discussions.
The people of Scotland deserve that, and we de-serve them if we do not acknowledge that obligation that is on us all.17:45 I thank Willie Rennie for his kind remarks about our colleague and friend, John Park, who will be leaving Parliament.
A number of concerns have been expressed to me by students, potential students, parents of students and the EIS about decisions taken by Edinburgh’s Telford College on matters relating to staffing and the curriculum.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 January 2010
There has been and continues to be, especially during the current period of severe weather, appropriate and close liaison between Scottish Government and council officials about these matters.
Mr Rennie will not have had the update from me, as I have written to the constituency representatives for the three sites and to the regional MSPs for North East Scotland, Lothian and Glasgow.