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The Executive values all such entrepreneurial activity and we pay tribute to all the young entrepreneurs out there who are building Scotland's economy. We pledge to continue to give them ever-increasing support.It is interesting that sometimes our economic future can be rooted in our past, and I think that the alginate industry has a strong future.
Nigg Construction Yard To ask the Scottish Executive what it considers the significance of the former Nigg construction yard on the Cromarty firth to be for the economic development of the Highlands and Scotland. (S2O-12467) That strategically important site is of considerable significance for the economic development of the area, not least given its acces...
It is right that the proposals have been changed and it is right that, where car parking charges are necessary in the health service in Scotland, the charges do not penalise, in particular, lower-paid members of staff and those patients who have to attend hospital regularly.
Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill To ask the Scottish Executive when it anticipates that local authorities will be in a position to implement the provisions of the Custodial Sentences and Weapons (Scotland) Bill.
The SNP might want to concentrate on smells, but the Administration is concentrating on improving Scotland and putting in place whatever innovative contract procedures are necessary to ensure that we do that.
In relation to the Arbroath situation, the developer also requires consent for road construction under the Roads (Scotland) Act 1984. That consent was refused by Angus Council, and the developer subsequently appealed the decision to the Scottish ministers.
One only has to consider the initiatives that are taking place all around Scotland, for example on school meals, supervised tooth brushing in nurseries and other work in communities, in workplaces and, of course, in the national health service.
We should probably also have written to Friends of the Earth Scotland to check how many trees were cut down in writing to all those organisations.All those organisations have responded, giving their differing views on the petition, and the petitioner has commented on the submissions that have been made.
Broadband To ask the First Minister how the introduction of broadband is progressing across Scotland. (S2F-2672) The Executive has made highly significant progress in broadband deployment over the past few years.