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Henry McLeish and I, with the aid of Colin Montgomerie, will launch the golf tourism strategy next week. I will also visit the European open in Ireland at the weekend and will speak to the Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Mr McDaid.
Will the meetings with Communities Against Poverty be formal meetings of the committee or visits? I should have clarified that. We decided that it would not be appropriate to fit those meetings into the committee's formal programme, but instead have them take place on afternoons.
That could mean just about anything. Does a visit to a certain part of Sutherland or Perthshire, the presence of a Highland granny or absentee ownership of a few thousand acres allow an applicant to qualify for an appointment?
I do not want to go through them all line by line, but a variety of people have offered us information, presentations, possible inquiry topics, visits and so on. I would like committee members to look at the paper and offer comments.
Therefore, if we were going to pass on an item of correspondence which asked us to visit somewhere, or make a decision, or if it raised an urgent issue, the reporter would consider it, liaise on the matter and, when appropriate, bring it to the attention of the committee.
We require all parts of the NHS in Scotland to prepare plans for the coming months. Officials are currently visiting all health boards and trusts to ensure that adequate local arrangements are in place.
We have already witnessed changes in practice and women who are referred to the breast clinic now have their investigation undertaken in one visit—it is a one-stop clinic, which means that women no longer need to visit the hospital several times.
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance ministers have issued to schools regarding the facilitation of recruitment and other visits by members of the British armed forces.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many ministerial visits to local authorities took place in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) local authority and (b) minister.