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The Scottish Executive regularly assesses the impact of the World Trade Organisation's activities on its responsibilities working together with Scottish Trade International, the Scotland Office and the Department of Trade and Industry.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2000
The Trust has established its Scottish office in Alloa and its development officers are now active in coalfield communities promoting the work of the Trust and encouraging applications for support.
I think that we have enough to be getting on with. We are not information technology experts—as is, perhaps, confirmed by my difficulty in navigating the Parliament's website to get the information that I am looking for.
I agree that it is important to support the professionals in getting it right in future, but surely what is missing is an apology from the First Minister for getting it so wrong in the past.
It has taken more than two years since the initiation of that short-life action group to get to this stage. The health board responses, which have been the cause of delay in the consideration of the petition by the committee, have only recently been brought together and published.
Are you saying that we should go to the Executive, get a lead from it about its attitude to the proposal and then contact wider organisations after the Executive gets back to us?
At that point, we should have greater clarity about where we are, so we can consider then whether the Sewel motion needs to come back to us.It is useful to get the matter on record now because the amendment fundamentally changes the bill and takes it into areas on which nobody has consulted.