How many ministerial visits to the Scottish Borders have been made in each year since 1999 by (a) Robert Brown MSP, (b) Ross Finnie MSP, (c…

The information requested isshown in the following table. The information identified in the table has been gatheredfrom the various Ministerial Private Offices and is as complete as our records allow.Different Private Offices record and retain information in different ways, whichis perfectly acceptable for our business purposes, but does not allow us to easilyextract the information requested.
Minister
| Title
| Visits

Ross Finnie
| Minister for Environment and Rural Development
| 20

George Lyon
| Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business
| 1

Euan Robson
| Deputy Minister for Education and Young People
| 18

Tavish Scott
| Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform
| 2

Tavish Scott
| Minister for Transport
| 2

Nicol Stephen
| Deputy First Minister
| 1

Nicol Stephen
| Minister for Transport
| 2

Jim Wallace
| Deputy First Minister
| 9

Total
| 55


The Executive have supplied the following corrected answer:
Mr Tom McCabe: The information requestedis shown in the following table. The information identified in the table hasbeen gathered from the various Ministerial Private Offices and is as completeas our records allow. Different Private Offices record and retain informationin different ways, which is perfectly acceptable for our business purposes, butdoes not allow us to easily extract the information requested.
Minister
| Title
| Visits

Robert Brown
| Deputy Minister for Education and Young People
| 2

Ross Finnie
| Minister for Environment and Rural Development
| 20

George Lyon
| Deputy Minister for Finance, Public Service Reform and Parliamentary Business
| 1

Euan Robson
| Deputy Minister for Education and Young People
| 18

Tavish Scott
|