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To date over £20 million has been awarded towards 10 different park-and-ride schemes in Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen City, Angus, Perth and Kinross, Fife, Falkirk, Stirling, and Midlothian.
The Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning referred on 4 December to the originally scheduled date for the re-opening of the Beauly Station, 30 November 2001.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 September 2001
It was also placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre on that date (Bib. No. 16141). It is our intention to follow that up with a further input later in the autumn, once the outcomes of the studies we have commissioned into Scotland's renewable resource and the electricity network are available to us.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 March 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-13385 by Ross Finnie on 28 February 2001, whether it will provide figures for the percentage of beef and sheep farmers who were eligible for the previous Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowance who will be worse off under the new less favoured area formula, broken down by Scottish Executive Rural Affairs Department local office area, for those areas from which claims have been processed and analysed to date...
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it will take to ensure that police forces are sympathetic and open minded in their treatment of victims of "date rape". The importance of tact and sensitivity in handling all rape victims, including victims of date rape, has long been recognised by the Scottish Executive and...
To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Scottish Executive News Release SE0926/2000, when the "#3 million assuming the Commission agrees an increase in the maximum weight per animal under the Over Thirty Months Scheme" was first announced, and on how many occasions this funding was referred to in press releases between this date and 30 March 2000. 30 March was the first date on which it was announced that Scottish cattle producers would benefit by around £3 million in the 2000-01 financial year from a European Commission decision to increase the maximum weight per animal under the Over Thirty Months Scheme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 October 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the cost to date and the expected annual cost of the Public Defence Solicitors' office in Edinburgh and if it will publish the total number of cases concluded to date.
Ultimately, there has to be a balance between fish farm operators having some form of land bank that allows them to expand or contract production depending on the market, and other people who want to enter the market or expand production being treated fairly.
Some ask for accounts, which many owners think unnecessary, and some ask for a bank statement to confirm that the business is viable and continuing to trade.