Results 1-11 of 11 for hunting speaker:Alex Salmond

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Graduate Employment (12 Nov 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...; enterprise and entrepreneurship; and workforce development. In addition to university-funded careers services, the Scottish funding council is also providing £27,000 to fund careers advice and job hunting services for final-year students and unemployed graduates. The latest figures in the labour force survey suggest that graduate employment is proving more resilient in Scotland than...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Flood Management (5 Nov 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...impact on people's lives. All our thoughts are with them. I also put on record my thanks to all the emergency services for their hard work and swift action, which I witnessed for myself in Huntly in my constituency on Monday. I will update Parliament on the situation. A significant number of rivers were affected by the heavy rains of 1 and 2 November. As of 9 am on Monday, for example,...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Flood Management (5 Nov 2009)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...for the entire month of November. My understanding is that, in Stonehaven, areas were flooded that had not been flooded in a generation or in living memory; my certain knowledge is that that was the case in Huntly. The Flood Risk Management (Scotland) Act 2009 will assist substantially. Of course, the Belwin formula still applies for assisting local authorities that encounter and deal with...

Amendment of the Law (27 Apr 2009) has video

Alex Salmond: ...I have seen many Budgets and many Chancellors. There have been good Budgets and bad ones, and they have happened at various times of the year—often, annoyingly, during the Cheltenham national hunt festival—but one thing is invariably true: all the Budgets that I can remember have had a good reception on the day and have then been gradually deconstructed, attacked and ripped to...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (24 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...system. The assessment system that is employed is designed to put public safety uppermost. Nevertheless, because of concerns about prisons and sentencing in general—and, indeed, about Castle Huntly—on 20 September this Government announced the establishment of a Scottish Prisons Commission, led by Henry McLeish, to consider the purpose and impact of imprisonment in contemporary...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (24 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: .... Clearly, the Scottish Prison Service puts the safety and integrity of the system uppermost at all times. As the former Minister for Justice will remember, there have been concerns about Castle Huntly for some time and about a number of aspects of the prison system in relation to prisoners absconding and early release. The advantage of pursuing the matter in the way that the Government is...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Engagements (24 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...First Minister so that the position and the deficiencies can be addressed coherently. I could point out, if I so wished, the complaints that were made to the previous Minister for Justice about Castle Huntly—particularly by a former HM chief inspector of prisons—and ask a series of questions about what plans were implemented. However, if Wendy Alexander is going to come to the...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (24 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: The Cabinet Secretary for Justice will be glad to look at Castle Huntly specifically, as well as referring the issues to the McLeish commission, which I believe is the proper way to tackle them. If Annabel Goldie looks at the Official Report of previous debates, she will see that the justice secretary has referred specifically to Castle Huntly in answer to questions from a number of...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (24 Jan 2008)

Rt Hon Alex Salmond: ...open prison is the safety of the public. The evaluation systems are not foolproof, but that is the basis on which decisions are taken. I have already said that 75 prisoners absconding from Castle Huntly is 75 too many, even though that is a small percentage of the numbers going through the system. The figure for the year thus far is 65, which is 65 too many. That is a serious situation...

Written Answers — Environment Food and Rural Affairs: Hunting (31 Oct 2001)

Mr Alex Salmond: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what recent studies of foot and mouth disease risks surrounding fox hunting she has commissioned.

Land Ownership (Scotland) (6 Nov 1996)

Mr Alex Salmond: ...speculation, and left lives and nerves shattered in his wake. The law is a mess, but the Government have done nothing to tackle the problem. In Aberdeenshire, Mr. Hamilton purchased the remnants of the Huntly estate for a mere £2,500. In Kinnoir, he made £125,000 from Grampian region, which sold the property of redundant school buildings to a private bidder. Near Huntly, he...