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Date answered:
4 March 2005
S2W-14272
The Executive has no information on the likelihood of foreign footballers coming to Scotland whether through Lithuania or any other country.Where the Action Plan for Youth Football is concerned, the football authorities in Scotland are fully committed to its implementation.
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Date answered:
4 March 2005
S2W-14688
However, the Scottish Executive research report Future Patterns Of Retailing In Scotland indicates that, as part of the extensive structural changes in retailing, there has been a reduction in the total number of shops in Scotland, from approximately 30,000 in the 1980s to an estimated 22,500 in 2000.Copies of NPPG8 and Future Patterns Of Retailing In Scotland have been placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib. numbers 1081 and 35511 respectively).
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Date answered:
3 February 2005
S2O-05194
Putting in place the new arrangements for providing primary care out-of-hours services across Scotland has been a major and challenging task for the NHS and its staff.
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16 September 2004
S2W-10064
I have asked Angiolina Foster Chief Executive of Communities Scotland to respond. Her response is as follows:At present, it is for each local adult literacy and numeracy partnership to set its own criteria for selecting staff in this field and check them through Disclosure Scotland.
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24 May 2004
S2W-08129
Following the success of theExecutive’s “Scotland in Sweden” event in 2002, several new direct air routes betweenScotland and Sweden have been established, and VisitScotland now regardsSweden as an important target market.
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Date answered:
4 May 2004
S2W-07434
The DeerCommission for Scotland (DCS) have statedpublicly that fencing can be an effective tool for deer management and have supportedits use in a number of locations.DCS is obliged under the Deer(Scotland) Act 1996 to take action if it is satisfied that there is a risk of seriousdamage to agriculture, woodland, the natural heritage or a risk to public safetyHowever, the act specifically prevents the DCS from requiring an owner or occupierto construct a deer fence.Havingconsulted interested parties, DCS is currently working with ForestryCommission Scotland, Scottish Natural Heritage and the Scottish Executive Environmentand Rural Affairs Department to produce, a joint policy statement on deer fencing.
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Date answered:
27 April 2004
S2W-07284
The Executive is addressingits recommendations through its support for Gaelic education, the exercise of thepowers available to ministers under the Standards in Scotland’s Schools Act etc.2000, the activity of Her Majesty’s Inspector of Education and its work to takeforward its commitments to the two partnership agreements of a Gaelic language actand a languages strategy to guide the development of Scotland’s languages.
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Date answered:
2 October 2003
S2W-02771
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is using to assess the effectiveness of its efforts to encourage a culture of enterprise; what targets it has set for each of these measures, and what action it is taking to achieve them, as referred to in A Partnership for a Better Scotland. The Executive’s targets in relationto enterprise are set out in Building a Better Scotland (BABS) which waspublished in September 2002.
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Date answered:
29 September 2003
S2W-02513
However, last month Iasked Forestry Commission Scotland to undertake a review, including a public consultation,of the long-term role of Scotland’s national forest estate, making recommendationsto ministers about changes that can improve its ability to deliver the prioritiesset out in the Scottish Forestry Strategy, t...
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26 June 2003
S2W-01154
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the key performance targets that it has set for Historic Scotland for 2003-04. I have set Historic Scotland the following key performance targets for 2003-04.Key Performance AreaTargetProtecting Scotland's Built HeritageNumber of monuments scheduled217Weighted number of listed building resurvey units125No. of weeks in which 80% of Scheduled Monument Consent cases resolved9Percentage of Listed Building Consent cases resolved within 28 days97%Number of condition surveys completed for properties in care65Promoting and Presenting the Built HeritageHS market share compared to other paid visitor attractions in Scotland*55%Performance rating from the Mystery Visit programme (using three-year rolling average)87%Average retail spend per visitor£2.35Agency ManagementPercentage efficiency gains/savings on non-grant expenditure1%Note:*A basket of 30 properties is used.
