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These establish objectives, priorities and measures for each of the EU programmes, and therefore reflect the funding priorities of the Scottish Executive, regional and local partners.The structural funds regulations govern how EU funding can be used in the member states.
The Scottish Executive regularly reviews its level of funding of the Scottish Agricultural College for the various publicly funded services it provides.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 September 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding was made available to each further education college to assist students with severe disabilities to pursue their studies in academic session 2000-01 and what funding is available to each college for 2001-02.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 August 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive whether, in considering its future policy directions to the National Heritage Memorial Fund (NHMF) on the distribution of Lottery funding, it will investigate the level of financial assistance received from the Fund by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB); whether it will instruct the NHMF to give priority to any future RSPB applications for NHMF funding or whether it will instruct the fund to give priority to any particular other organisations over any RSPB applications; if so, which organisations and whether these organisations will include farmers in Islay.
Last year alone, seven EU commissioners visited Scotland, which shows an unprecedented focus on a country that is described as a region in EU terms and illustrates just how well the Executive is representing Scotland on the European stage—so much so that commissioners who are responsible for policies such as fisheries, structural funds, the internal market, energy and agriculture are coming to Scotland to hear about our specific interests and experiences in those policy areas.Representing Scotland's interests before and during negotiations is important, but ensuring that the resulting legislation is transposed effectively into our own legal system is just as important.