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Within this context our action to simplify and de-clutter the public sector landscape will play an important role in raising Scotland''s overall economic growth rate.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 April 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many convicted prisoners have not received visitors in the last (a) six months, (b) year, (c) two years, (d) three years and (e) five years or more.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 April 2008
Events are supported either through the international programme, if they attract visitors from outside Scotland or generate international media profile for the country, or through the regional programme if they help to drive domestic tourism.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 March 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what funds it or the Scottish Prison Service has awarded to the Association of Prison Visitors for (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2007
The introductionof car park charging for staff, patients, visitors and carers is a local matterfor NHS boards.On Friday 14 September 2007, I announced that the Scottish Governmentwould be reviewing hospital car parking charges.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Parliament events involving VIP or Royal visitors and requiring an additional police presence are anticipated over the next six months, broken down by police authority area.
However, quite apart from the fact that the credit crunch did not help that kind of initiative, some of us believe that there was perhaps an element of cold feet from a Government that was not really confident that it wanted to be a bank or a lender.