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Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park (PE471)

Tuesday 26 March 2002 Rural Development Committee Petitions 4 contributions · 2 speakers

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Alex Fergusson Con The Convener · South of Scotland
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Item 2 is petition PE471 from Dereck Fowles. Members will have received a cover note from the clerks, which sets out the background to the petition. I draw members' attention to the Public Petitions Committee's referral, which notes the funding increase that the Scottish Executive announced for the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs national park and recommends that the committee raises the matter with the Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development. I suggest that the committee agrees to note the petition and to ask funding questions when we hear from the deputy minister under item 3.I am sure that members know that when the petition was submitted, the suggested level of funding was considerably less than the amount that Scottish Natural Heritage had proposed. The minister has since increased that figure to a more comparable level. Unless members have comments, I suggest that we simply note the petition.

Fergus Ewing SNP Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber
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I mention for the record that I may have an interest to declare in relation to this and the next item, as my first matrimonial home was in Drymen, which I believe is within the boundaries of the national park. I do not think that that is an interest, but I mention it in case it is.

Alex Fergusson Con The Convener · South of Scotland
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Are members content to note Mr Fowles's petition and move on?

Members indicated agreement.

  1. Scottish Parliament Rural Development Committee Tuesday 26 March 2002 (Afternoon) Committee business · 1
  2. Items in Private Procedure · 15
  3. Petition Petitions · 4
  4. Subordinate Legislation Subordinate legislation · 78
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  6. Local Government Covenant Committee business · 3

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