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However, I make it clear to Mr Macintosh that our substantial capital investment programme is already under way under the auspices of the Government's infrastructure investment plan, and the Government must prioritise those developments.
It has already highlighted in its interim report on the democratic phase of its work the importance that Scots attach to television news and the fact that a majority are confused about whether items in network news programmes apply to Scotland. Does the minister agree that one way of ensuring improved news coverage from a Scottish perspective of national, i...
That will be particularly important in light of the curriculum for excellence programme. The cabinet secretary will be aware that college suits some pupils better than school.
I seek your clarification on chapter 14 of the standing orders of the Scottish Parliament.This morning, the Government published "Scotland's Climate Change Programme: Second Annual Report, April 2007—March 2008".
The fund was introduced for a three-year period ending on 31 March 2008 and was only ever intended as a short-term programme. HERF monies are part of the 2007-08 budget and therefore cannot be used against spending plans for the financial year 2008-09.
(S3O-1725) The trunk road investment programme for 2008-09 is, as is normal with planning for major improvements, long term, and is largely as inherited from the previous Administration, which made no provision for that work.
We aim to inject some £1.6 billion into rural areas over the seven-year period of the Scotland rural development programme, and we expect that farming communities will particularly benefit from the measures that are directed towards promoting the competitiveness of agriculture, the quality of life in rural areas and diversification of the rural economy.
I am told that this subject was considered at the committee's away day and that the committee agreed as part of its work programme to commission the Scottish Parliament information centre to undertake an exercise mapping the bodies—that information appears as annex A to the paper by the clerk.
We are in the happy position of being able to meld those communities into our overall tourism planning, and to look to the precedent that has been created in Europe, where the frontiers of the Roman empire have already attracted European funding from the Culture 2000 programme. We expect to be able to go to that source of funding as a top priority.
(S3O-961) Orkney Islands Council has asked the Scottish Government for substantial additional financial support towards the capital costs of a long-term programme to improve its interisland transport services.