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.
When visitorsexpress interest in meeting the committee or discussing European issues, we seek expressions of interest from members of this committee and attempt to find out who is available.
On the question about cuts more generally, it is to the credit of directors of education and local authorities that they see education as a key service.
We have a mechanism for delivering such services in this country, which we do not use adequately: health visitors. We need to look at the training of health visitors, as they are one of the primary routes by which parenting support might be provided.
Therefore, anyone who votes for the purpose clause that is proposed in amendment 21 will be going against the express wishes of just about every reputable professional organisation that represents our farmers and crofters.
What is good for a Greek island with a million visitors a year is different from what is required for Colonsay, which has 180 inhabitants and perhaps less than 2,000 visitors a year.
After this meeting, I am going to meet a developer who has consent and a grid connection for a two-turbine site. They are going to pay credit this week, but they have been told by their funders that they cannot get to financial close until they get confirmation that the preliminary accreditation has been successful.
Are any programmes in the pipeline that will take advantage of the flexibility in the de minimis threshold for state aid to provide support to SMEs or large companies?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2010
The interactions between seals and salmon farms were also examined through direct observations of seal activity around two sites and by examining trends in numbers of seals in relation to their distance from farm sites throughout Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2009
Good progress is being made in reducing the number of Surgical Site Infections (SSIs). The sixth national annual report on SSIs confirmed a downward trend in infection rates across all categories of surgery.