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To ask the Scottish Executive how many cases of foot and mouth disease in Scotland have been identified as having been contracted by air-borne transmission and how many by direct contact.
The Executive's New Strategy for Scottish Tourism contains many new actions designed to grow tourism throughout Scotland. The strategy actions will be reviewed over the course of the next few months.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-10039 by Iain Gray on 30 October 2000, what progress has been made in ensuring that people with a disability continue to have access to the support and advisory services provided by Disability Scotland. The Executive hopes to be in a position soon to set out proposals to ensure that disab...
Since 1996 the Powershift grant scheme in Scotland has assisted the purchase or conversion of 133 local authority vehicles to run on either liquid petroleum gas or compressed natural gas.
However, the most recent Labour Force Survey reports that in Scotland, during the period December 2000 to February 2001, there were approximately 30,000 people of working age with a degree earning less than £10,000 per year.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of the Prison Officers' Association Scotland. Representatives of the Scottish Prison Service and the Prison Officers’ Association attended a conciliation hearing on 1 May 2001 which was chaired by the Director of ACAS for Scotland.As a result, the dispute about staff attendance patterns has be...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2001
A Scottish order is required to provide for the implementation of our FIFG plans.The Fisheries and Aquaculture Structures (Grants) (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001 No 140) was laid before the Parliament on 5 April 2001.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-12876 by Mr Jim Wallace on 9 February 2001, whether the number of Catholic prisoners is proportionate to the number of Catholics in Scotland. I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 April 2001
The report will be published following receipt, expected by the end of May 2001.The report is also to be made available on the Task Force website:http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/scotland/ecoli S1W-14887
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 April 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has received any communication from the Scottish Licensed Trade Association requesting it to make representations to Her Majesty's Government about the impact which the current level of VAT, cost of fuel and value of sterling have on the cost of holidays in Scotland and consequently on the tourism industry.