What plans it has to celebrate St Andrew’s Day, other than by sending St Andrew’s Day packs to schools and universities.

St Andrew’s Daywill be a great opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s culture, history and talents. Our programme for St Andrew’s Dayinvolves events across all of Scotland's six cities, and Scottish Governmentevents in Edinburgh, Brussels, Washington and Beijing. Scottish Government employees have been given the option of swappingan existing holiday for a half day holiday on St Andrew’s Day and we areworking with organisations across Scotland to raise theprofile of our national day. Detailed information about the programme can befound at www.scotland.org and furtherdetails of the plans will be announced during November.