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I am aware of the particular challenges in engaging with young people with developmental disorders, whether Asperger’s or autism, and in ensuring that they get the right support at the right time.
The Welfare Reform Bill provides opportunities for support to get people back into work. Has the minister met the two main contractors who will deliver the programme in Scotland, Ingeus Deloitte and Working Links, to ensure that our further education colleges are given every opportunity to provide employability and training programmes for people who are cur...
It is no accident that the first two areas to get ahead are the Highlands and Islands and the south of Scotland, both of which have substantial rural hinterlands.
The clerk’s proposal to have a business planning day makes a lot of sense, although I do not think that we would need a whole day to look at the forward work programme—we could probably get away with having a half-day session towards the end of the recess.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 October 2013
Historic Scotland promotes individual World Heritage Sites in its marketing activities, and works with other agencies to market and promote the WHS more widely, including Visit Scotland, Scottish Canals and Scottish Natural Heritage.
The individual therefore had difficulty getting representation.Will the Government make inquiries of the Gypsy Traveller community to find out whether people find it difficult not just to get legal aid but to get access to lawyers, who say that they do not handle material that...
There are issues about funding and about asset ownership. The sooner that gets done, the better. Until it gets done, we are still doing everything on the old basis.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has produced a maritime strategy similar to that of the Norwegian Government. No. Planning for Maritime activities is currently covered in the National Marine Plan and National Planning Framework, both consulted upon earlier this year.