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We have consulted the funding council about the foot-and-mouth outbreak since March, because the outbreak severely affected our operations and our students.
—Official Report, 28 March 2002; c 10780. On 25 April 2002, the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, Ross Finnie, told Parliament:"The 1976 act will be reformed and repealed.
The consultation went through due process; in fact, in March I was asked to speak at a seminar, organised by SNH and the Executive, about national scenic areas and wider landscape issues.
The outcry in Greenock and Inverclyde was particularly fierce: thousands of local residents marched against the health board's proposals to centralise services at Royal Alexandria hospital in Paisley.
This is a clear example of the Tories trying to appear responsible, through the words of Alex Johnstone, then, when they get back into their regions and their constituencies, whipping up hysteria and talking about thousands of turbines marching across the countryside. I ask the Tories whether they could just as well be talking about asylum seekers.
The Lancet reports that in excess of 100,000 civilians—mainly women and children—have been killed in violent deaths.On March 13 2003, we, as MSPs—or, rather, you, as MSPs—had the opportunity to register the Parliament's opposition to that action.
The ministerial working group for aquaculture began its work at about the same time and produced the strategic framework for Scottish aquaculture at the end of March 2003. Many of the committee's recommendations were picked up in the priority actions that were identified in appendix 3 to the strategy.
In a letter to the committee dated 6 March 2003, the cross-party group on survivors of childhood sexual abuse stated:"We believe it is right to expect an inquiry into past institutional child abuse, in particular for those children who were in the care of the state under the supervision of religious orders.
Our role as one of the leading legislative regions was crucial in winning that argument. In March this year, I held up regionalisation of the common fisheries policy as a further measure of the EU's commitment to the devolved agenda.