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However, other ministers including the Minister for Environment and Rural Development and the Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport will also take a particular interest in Highlands and Islands issues.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive why its Development Department clarified aspects of each bidder's quality proposals with the knowledge of the initial results of the financial assessment of bids, as reported in paragraph 1.63 of Audit Scotland's The new trunk road contracts.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2001
The outcome will highlight the central role that tourism businesses, including retail businesses, have in the continuing development of tourism. S1W-19458
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2001
The Executive meets regularly with the RIAS on a wide range of matters affecting the profession in Scotland. This includes the development of policy on architecture, the overarching message of which is the value of good design.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 November 2001
The marketing authorisations for organophosphate (OP) sheep dips has been suspended, pending satisfactory completion of plans being developed by marketing authorisation holders for closed systems for transferring OP dip concentrate from its container into the dip bath.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 September 2001
I have asked the Scottish Arts Council to ensure that Scottish Ballet consults widely and that Scottish Ballet's plans are consistent with the overall five-year strategy for dance that the Scottish Arts Council is currently developing. S1W-17580
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 August 2001
I have invited the Dundee Heritage Trust to work up a detailed forward plan in consultation with its partners, and to keep me informed of developments. In due course I will discuss the plan with the trustees in the light of the outcome of the National Audit in relation to the trust's museums.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 August 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will act on the recommendation in Rural Partnership for Change: Report of the National Steering Group that it should explore the scope for creating a standard model planning agreement to facilitate the negotiation of agreements under section 75 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 between developers...
Planning authorities are already required to advertise any potential departures from an approved development plan.We will, however, be consulting later in the summer on measures to secure more effective public involvement in the planning process.