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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make additional funds available to Central Scotland Police to cover the extra costs incurred by them in setting up and running a centralised prisoner unit in Falkirk to meet the requirements of the European Convention on Human Rights.
The United Kingdom has signed up to the initiative; I ask the minister to make clear Scotland's commitment to it. Let us make its aims a reality in Scotland.
Members may recall that the committee has written to the minister a couple of times about securing EU agencies for Scotland—we have asked what has been done to monitor which agencies are available and to secure those for Scotland.
Plainly, there is £6.9 million left in that fund. I am interested in knowing whether the petitioners consider that the remaining fund would go some or all of the way towards meeting their problems.
Motor Neurone Disease (PE674) Petition PE674 calls on the Scottish Parliament to consider the funding of services for people who suffer from motor neurone disease.
I suggest that the committee agrees to note the petition and to ask funding questions when we hear from the deputy minister under item 3.I am sure that members know that when the petition was submitted, the suggested level of funding was considerably less than the amount that Scottish Natural Heritage had proposed.
Highlands and Islands Veterinary Fund To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to conduct a review of the present payment arrangements of the Highlands and Islands veterinary fund with a view to addressing any need for increased animal disease surveillance.
The new agricultural development measures that have been incorporated into the draft Highlands and Islands structural funds programme, which will include a scheme not dissimilar to ABIS, might offer another part of the solution.