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.
This will ensure best value over the long-term and will ensure that Scottish industry can thrive and compete effectively.A more detailed assessment is available on the Scottish Executive website or on request from the Executive.
It seems to me that, if I am promoting a project and want to build a railway line or a bridge or whatever, it remains open to me at any time to go to any landowner and say, "I want to buy this," or, "I want to buy that."
A summary of the issues that were discussed at the meeting has been posted on the sustainable Scotland website today. I thank the First Minister for the commitments that he made in that reply.
If those projects are above the delegated authorities of the boards, the board normally has to submit to us an outline business case before it goes to the market to buy whatever it is that it wants to buy, such as a building or whatever.