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To ask the Scottish Executive what the estimated costs are of granting an additional day's holiday per year to (a) its, (b) NHS and (c) local authority employees.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has considered funding the Family Fund Trust in order to facilitate disabled children taking holidays and what conclusions it has reached.
Clearly, if you are going to have offices there or any kind of facility that needs daylight, you will need to remove the banking. However, that does not explain why you need to build on that area, as opposed to simply removing the banking and building within your existing walls.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 March 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will be in a position to inform Police Boards whether they are to receive additional funding to cover the Millennium holiday period. On Friday 8 October I announced that we are now able to provide the police in Scotland with a special grant of £4.7m to help meet the additional cost of policing over the Millennium holiday period.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what contingency plans are in place for sampling for amnesic shellfish poisoning during (a) bad weather and (b) the holiday season. The shellfish toxin sampling continues throughout holidays and weekends to ensure that public health is protected at all times.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2000
It is estimated that 200,000 tourists visit Scotland for golfing holidays annually. Information on the country of origin of such visitors, and on the mode of transport they use to travel to Scotland, is not available.
Second-generation biometrics: A name given to newly emerging forms of biometric analysis which have not, to date, been widely used in policing (such as: facial recognition, gait recognition, eye/iris/retinal identification, and voice recognition).