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To ask the Scottish Executive how much expenditure has been set aside for New Housing Partnership challenge funding and (a) what level of and (b) to whom such funding was distributed in each year for which it has been available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive which local authorities provide rates relief to sports clubs and what funding has been allocated to local authorities to provide such rates relief in each of the last five years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what the outcome was of the consultation last year on the physical punishment of children in Scotland. We published our consultation paper in February 2000 and received 220 responses.
Specific questions were asked about the powers of the Holyrood inquiry and whether the First Minister would consider using powers under section 23 of the Scotland Act 1998, but no direct answer was given.
The committee should agree to write to the Scottish Executive asking what it is doing to ensure that every local authority in Scotland is consulting agencies such as Historic Scotland and the Royal Fine Art Commission.
Those documents will be all-important, as they will contain the views of our constituents and people throughout Scotland who have an interest. We must establish what our relationship with the civil service is, in relation to the freedom of information.
Water Services etc (Scotland) Bill: Stage 2 I welcome members of the press and the public, as well as pretty much the entire bill team—so I am told—for the Water Services etc (Scotland) Bill and the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Lewis Macdonald.This is our second day of stage 2 consideration of the Water Services etc (Scotland) Bill.