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The Scottish Arts Council are at present devising the detailed criteria for the new programme which will guide their allocation of the available funds.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it took in response to the recommendation of the World Health Organisation that vaccination programmes in the UK, including Scotland, should be extended ahead of winter 1999.
To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to publish the draft bills on land reform and abolition of feudal tenure announced as part of the legislative programme for 1999 / 2000. I refer the Member to the answers I gave to Mike Watson today.
The key changes include the requirement that is to be placed on strategic development planning authorities and local development planning authorities to draw up a programme that will be known as a development plan scheme, which will indicate the programme for plan preparation in the authority's area.
To date, we have been busy gathering departments' initial views on what a funding framework for Scotland might look like. The development work on programmes and the consultation will all be conducted by the big lottery fund as part of its method of working with its key stakeholders.
I recommend that we have flexibility and allow the Parliament to decide the business programme, but in our report we can recommend specifically that we wish to examine a particular slot.
One of the things that has arisen in Australia, in one or two of the states of the United States and in other places has been the idea that there should be attempts to identify particular areas of expenditure and programme activity for periodical in-depth review.