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To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the guidelines governing public appointments in Scotland. Scottish Ministers are committed to ensuring that appointments to Scottish public bodies are subject to independent scrutiny and conform to the Commissioner for Public Appointments' guidance.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will review the guidelines governing public appointments in Scotland. Scottish Ministers are committed to ensuring that appointments to Scottish public bodies are subject to independent scrutiny and conform to the Commissioner for Public Appointments' guidance.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Tourist Board will make use of the coverage of the Parliament, and in particular the opening ceremony, as a means of promoting Scotland. This is an operational matter for the Scottish Tourist Board.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 August 1999
Recognising the importance of this industry to Scotland, I shall soon be meeting representatives from the Scotch Whisky industry to hear at first hand about their prospects and concerns.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 August 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Scottish Tourist Board will make use of the coverage of the Parliament, and in particular the opening ceremony, as a means of promoting Scotland. This is an operational matter for the Scottish Tourist Board.
To ask the Scottish Executive for details of the marketing budget in each of the area Tourist Boards in Scotland for each of the last three financial years and the estimated budgets for the next three financial years.
To ask the Scottish Executive to specify the planned level of capital investment in the National Health Service in Scotland for financial years 1999/2000 to 2001/2002 inclusive, in real terms.
A further consultation document on any future support for farming in Scotland's Less-Favoured Areas will be issued once full details of the EU implementing and transitional regulations are known.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many graduates obtained a degree in chemistry from each of Scotland’s universities in each of the last five years, showing year-on-year percentage changes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 December 2005
The BPI is part of NHSScotland’s agenda for modernising support services and is an important element of the Executive’s Efficient Government initiative aimed at delivering public services to the highest possible quality in Scotland. A contract was initially established in the West of Scotland in November 2003 and this was rolled out to the North and East of Scotland in November 2004.