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To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions it has had with the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) regarding educational reforms in Scotland. My officials are in touch with DfES officials on a range of common interests.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2004
All applications for judicial appointment are received, considered and sifted by members of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland. Scottish Executive officials are not involved in that process.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times Scottish Executive officials have attended technical committees and working parties of the EU Council of Ministers as the lead UK officials since 1 July 1999.
The day before a national park is created and the day after it is created, the area will still be subject to the same designations, whether they be SSSIs, SACs, Ramsar sites or sites subject to any of the other designations that exist.
For example, if someone knocks down a house in Unst, they have to take the entire house on lorries on two ferry journeys to dump it in the landfill site near Lerwick. I share the sense of absurdity at such legislation applying in that way.