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Members will remember that all those who were consulted by the committee were informed of the date on which we would take evidence and were asked to consider keeping that date clear so that we could invite them at short notice.
The purpose of the scheme is to provide an incentive to pupils when they reach their official school leaving date and have to make the decision whether or not to stay on at school.
It is not a short-term thing.Over the longer term, we will be looking across the skills and talent bank of Scotland to find ways in which we can play to our strengths in helping the reconstruction effort.
To ask the Scottish Executive why its published documents often do not contain a date of publication and whether steps are being taken to ensure that all publications include either a date of publication or dated ministerial forward.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 December 2002
Data which becomes available after that date cannot be taken into consideration.The Scottish Executive will use the most up to date statistics available in discussion about any entitlement to EU funds for the post-2006 period.