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Request from Ministers to Inland Revenue and Customs officials to take a very sympathetic approach to businesses experiencing financial problems as a result of the outbreak.
It appears on no one's radar as one of the key issues on which we should be spending committee time, officials' time or parliamentary time.Without that national view, we are in danger of taking something that—as I have said before—started off as no more than a stunt by a particular newspaper to increase its circulation and elevating to national policy a mat...
Committee members will see in the bullet points on page 2 of the paper suggestions that have been picked up from the Official Report and members' suggestions over time.
After a statement on the agreement, Mike Russell said:"Would it not be better to reduce bureaucracy … on schools and young people of assessment, targeting and the publication of league tables?"—Official Report, 14 February 2001; Vol 10, c 1201.
We have a paper on the matter, which sets out that, because the Scotland Act 1998 refers to "the Scottish Executive", that terminology must be used in official settings such as parliamentary questions, but it is open to members to use other terminology in less formal settings.
I am not sure why we have to change the board's official title by legislation. We certainly could just keep the legal name as the Scottish Tourist Board and allow it to continue trading under the name VisitScotland.
I have certainly come across cases in which constituents did not want to use official channels because they were worried about repercussions for their affected relatives.