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Richard Davies has just hurriedly scribbled a suggestion that we could ask Ross Finnie if the Executive's ministerial committee on rural development has considered this issue. Which other organisations or individuals should we approach for further information?
I am very conscious that the air route developmentfund has significantly increased the number of direct flights from Scotland and the number of people who want to come to Scotland.
Together with my colleagues on the Ministerial Committee on Rural Development, I am coming to the final stages of producing an overarching strategy that addresses the broad question of rural development in Scotland.
Is the minister aware that, in Dundee, funding that amounts to more than £15 million for—among others—quality of life funding, community regeneration funding and the cities growth fund will all end on 31 March 2008?
MSPs are learning fast how to cope with new technology and we hope that, by the time we are in the new Parliament building, the media will be similarly comfortable with those developments and that we might in future be able to dispense with paper copies.
However, a more meaningful SEA could be carried out of a programme of allocating funds to particular projects. As Neil Deasley said, the issue is where the assessment will be most meaningful.