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However, businesses wishing to invest in biofuel production can be considered for assistance through other generic schemes for providing assistance to business, including Regional Selective Assistance.
Is any funding provided for that? We are running a modest programme with the aid of European money from the Daphne programme, which, I regret to say, comes to an end in December—we would like it to be extended.
The report is essentially for the information of members. It will assist the committee when it considers the Executive's annual expenditure review in April.
A local authority could duplicate the Findhorn experience if it were minded to do so and the local enterprise company could assist if it wanted to do so. The Findhorn Foundation says:"We agree that creating a planning designation for ecovillage developments would assist innovation in Scotland",but—with all due respec...
I have given only a brief outline of the proposals that will be in our action programme, but I assure members that the programme will be just the first stage in a process.