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There is currently 72,100 tonnes of rendered material held in secure storage at two sites (Ratho and Glenrothes) in Scotland.The contractual terms of securing storage space are commercially sensitive and are a matter between the Intervention Board and the companies themselves.
Other costs include revising the corporate identity on uniforms, headed stationery, publications and redesigning our Internet and Intranet sites. Full and final costs are not yet available but are likely to amount to less than £60,000 in total.
This Parliament has a link with the past, but it is not about the past; its purpose is to take Scotland into the future. It would be a great pity if we had to trail this baggage into the future.
Amendment 24, by agreement, withdrawn. Amendments 25 and 26 not moved. Amendment 51, in the name of Maureen Macmillan, is grouped with amendments 52, 1, 53, 2, 3, 27, 4, 54, 81, 82, 13 to 15, 46 and 16.
However, although I am delighted that the new information commission for Scotland is to be sited in St Andrews, where I happen to live, I am not at all sure that any of those criteria work in terms of siting that commission there.
Does the minister agree that its importance should be further recognised internationally by being put forward to become a world heritage site, and will he undertake to take that forward?