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To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the use by the Scottish Egg Producing Retailers Association of the lion rampant as a trademark signifying that eggs displaying that mark are Scottish eggs produced in Scotland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 November 1999
Government Departments have discretion as to whether they produce public documents in Gaelic. We encourage the production of Gaelic versions of documents which have a clear focus on the Gaelic community.
What exactly did you have to do and what did you not have to deal with? You produced a report as instructed. You have said that you were not to factor the state of housing into that report.
In response to Duncan McNeil's question, work is going on that will produce a lot more data and probably provoke more prescribing of drugs such as statins.
Am I right that the Executive has said that it will produce a draft of section 18 regulations, but has not made any commitment about the section 19 regulations?
If we agree that there should be changes to standing orders, he will produce a more formal document that sets out the proposed changes and the reasons for them.