This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The tourism strategy commits the Scottish Tourist Board to benchmarking Scotland against countries overseas that offer comparable products and to then disseminate the results to businesses and to public sector partners.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish domiciled students are on courses which involve studying at a university in Scotland for a proportion of their course and at a higher education institution outside Scotland but within the United Kingdom for the remainder of their course.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
11 February 2000
The table below shows the number of entrants to medicine courses in Higher Education Institutions in Scotland. It is split into students domiciled in Scotland and those domiciled outwith Scotland:Entrants to Medicine Higher Education Courses on Scottish Higher Education Institutions, 1996-97 to 1998-991996-971997-981...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 February 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what its strategy is for tackling the issue of food poverty in Scotland. Our overall strategy for tackling poverty is set out in Social Justice: a Scotland where everyone matters.Through the Scottish Community Diet Project and Social Inclusion Partnerships the Executive funds a range of...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 January 2000
The proposed higher Scottish poundage results from an expected smaller increase in rateable value in Scotland than in England, the system has been designed to achieve a neutral effect overall.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will measure the number of new businesses created in Scotland by reference to the number of VAT registered businesses and, if not, by what other means will the number of new businesses be measured.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it supports the aims of the steering group being headed by Scottish Enterprise to look into the possibilty of setting up freight ferry services between Scotland and the continent and what effect it would expect such a service to have on the Scottish economy as a whole.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 December 1999
The Scottish Executive recognises the problems that are faced by many former coalmining communities in the Lothian area and across Scotland. This is why we are providing the Coalfields Regeneration Trust with resources of £4.5 million over three years to support the regeneration of coalfield communities across Scotland.The Coalfields Regeneration Trust is now inviting applications for funding from organisations and community groups across Scotland.