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Should satisfactory progress be made on these, we would be pleased to consider any further submissions in this area through our funding mechanism which, at present, is largely response mode and subject to peer and committee review.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 February 2000
To ask the Presiding Officer to provide a breakdown of foreign trips which the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body has funded to date, including the cost of each, the participants and the outcomes and whether copies of the breakdown will be placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre.
It would be helpful if we could deal with those matters together. People from all over Scotland will be at that meeting; it would be the right forum at which to launch the findings of the report.
Although we have received a number of responses, we still await one from Historic Scotland, and until that arrives, it would be too soon to report back on the matter.
There have been minor projects and, of course, those are welcome, but although Inverness is Scotland's fastest growing city, it is the only city in Scotland that lacks dual road or rail links.
In 2003, significant financial support was given to help showcase Scotland’s living cultural traditions in a major programme within the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, and the Executive also contributed funding to the first independent presentation of Scotland’s contemporary vi...