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Obviously, the committee has discussed preventative spending in previous years, but I remind everybody of the generality that preventative spend has to come from somewhere and that, although everybody agrees that it is a good thing, the agreement generally breaks down at the point where we try to transfer money into that spend from somewhere else.
Much will depend on whether the existing portfolio of Scottish Enterprise investments is transferred over to the bank, because that will, in principle, provide a number of exits and a portfolio whose valuation will, hopefully, continue to tick up.
The environmental secondary legislation that we are putting in place will transfer responsibilities, but I am not sure that it will do so in an effective way on which we could totally rely.
The legal process is that a site is handed over to its main contractor, which has ownership transferred to it for the currency of the contract so that it can carry out its obligations in looking after the site.
As I understand it, you have said that those powers will either be transferred to the Scottish Parliament or come under framework agreements in which the Scottish Government will have been party to agreeing.
On the Crown Estate, will you update us on where we are with the transfer scheme and what will happen in the longer term, because there is a process to be gone through here?
To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the UK Government regarding the implementation of a ban on ship-to-ship transfers of oil in UK territorial waters.
We are clear that we want to see second stage transfer take place where it can be sensibly achieved and in that regard our aim remains unchanged: to give tenants an early opportunity to choose their future landlord at a ballot.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 March 2008
Details of the transfer of responsibility for delivery of the Business Gateway, including the associated funding resources, are still under discussion with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.