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Details of the proposed Highlands and Islands Special Transitional Programme, which includes proposed grant assistance to farmers and crofters, are already in the public domain.
There seemed to be a principled determination that this was some kind of flagship programme that had to go ahead. We were unclear why a programme that was devised under one Administration and taken up under another Administration should suddenly become that second Administration's flagship programme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2004
Both schemes are managed bythe forestry commission Scotland. Assistance is also available from the biomasscapital grant scheme under the new and renewable energy programme, managed bythe Department of Trade and Industry.
I understand that it takes time to get a capital programme geared up, but even though the Government's top priority was economic growth, there seems to have been no intervention to speed up delivery of the programme.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 August 2001
When we reviewed the regulations after the consultation, we were aware of the need to provide some flexibility in what might be a long-running debt payment programme. There is no upper time limit on how long a programme can run, so creditors might agree on a programme that wou...