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Child Protection To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1F-1460 by Jack McConnell on 6 December 2001 and the launch of the Barnardo's stolen childhood campaign, what measures have been taken to protect children from abuse through prostitution. R (S1O-5630) The abuse of children through prostitution is often a hidden problem.
Agriculture (Regulatory Burdens) To ask the Scottish Executive how many of the recommendations made in the report "Review of the Regulatory Burden: IACS and Inspections in Scotland" have been implemented since its publication in January 2000. R (S1O-2363) As Mr Fergusson is aware, we published an interim report in June 2000; a copy has been placed in the S...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 September 2003
Research and development is the engine room for future growth of Scotland's economy. We must up our levels of R and D. Some of that—indeed, a large element of it—must come from companies themselves, but this Government is determined to support those companies in the future.
Core Path Network I draw attention to my entry in the register of interests.To ask the Scottish Executive how much Scottish Natural Heritage estimates the establishment of a core path network will cost in each of the next 10 years. R (S1O-3689) We have acknowledged that there will be costs associated with implementation of the access legislation.
The following quotation from the educationist R S Peters expands on that thought:"It is often suggested that the only alternatives open to us are either the relics of some traditional code or some version of a subjectivist stance such as Existentialism or a ‘situational ethic'.