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I am pleased to speak on the code of practice on deer management, which is provided for under section 5A of the Deer (Scotland) Act 1996, as inserted by the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Act 2011, with an intended start date of 1 January 2012.Before I expound on the code, I acknowledge the work of SNH, which took the lead on developing the cod...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 March 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the First Minister met any objectors to the planning application in Aviemore in which Mr Donald Macdonald had an interest and, if so, on what dates. No. S3W-09036
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of people with learning disabilities living in private hospitals have an agreed discharge date. This informationis not held centrally.
Colleagues who attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology event a couple of weeks ago will know that its report suggests that by 2022 we will need 147,000 engineers alone in Scotland to have the kind of growth in the economy that we want.
We do not expect a big bang overnight—it is not as though, at midnight on a certain date, we will change immediately from short sentences to community payback orders.