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To ask the Scottish Executive what stores in Scotland are being used to store rendered material from 30 month old cattle as part of the programme to eradicate BSE and what are the names of the contractors responsible for the storage facilities.
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Date answered:
10 September 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive what stores in Scotland are being used to store rendered material from 30 month old cattle as part of the programme to eradicate BSE and what are the names of the contractors responsible for the storage facilities.
Pauline McNeill spoke in detail about some of those challenges. The Scottish Arts Council assisted the band financially so that last year it could perform at the south by southwest festival in Austin, Texas.
That has become a big problem and it confuses people who expect assistance to follow Government guidelines but find barriers to doing so being put in their way by Government agencies.
We also need to ensure that schools assist in identifying young carers and that they co-operate and are involved in helping them.I hope that the Executive will assure us that it will get the various agencies involved to take the issue seriously.
We are committed to ensuring that Scotland is populated by successful businesses that drive the kind of economic growth that will assist us to close not only the opportunity gap but the substantial fiscal gap that others try so hard to deny.