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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 October 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that all answers to parliamentary questions and letters from MSPs are detailed, informed and transparent and that the minimum constraints on providing information are imposed.
I am acutely aware of the concerns that have been expressed both by MSPs, including Marilyn Livingstone, Christine May, John Home Robertson, Mark Ruskell and many others, and by councils.
We want community councils, tenants organisations and the wider public to see what is happening throughout Scotland. I will take steps to ensure that MSPs get copies of that good practice note so that they can distribute it to their constituents.
That is fairly clear and I expect us to find it acceptable. I now welcome the glut of MSPs who have just walked into the room: Murray Tosh and Adam Ingram.
The subject has caused much concern to all MSPs and communities. We must ask the Executive whether the programme fits in with the social inclusion agenda.
Notwithstanding the powerful case for an appropriate package of incentives to use buses and trains, together with penalties for unnecessary car journeys, does the minister share the disappointment of MSPs for constituencies around Edinburgh that the package is seriously flawed?