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Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee ENTERPRISE AND LIFELONG LEARNING COMMITTEE Tuesday 27 March 2001 (Afternoon) £5.00 Parliamentary copyright. Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body 2001. Applications for reproduction should be made in writing to the Copyright Unit, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, St Clements House, 2-16 Colegate, Norwich NR3 1BQ Fax 01603 723000, which is administering the copyright on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. Produced and published in Scotland on behalf of the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body by The Stationery Office Ltd. Her Majesty’s Stationery Office is independent of and separate from the company now trading as The Stationery Office Ltd, which is responsible for printing and publishing Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body publications. CONTENTS Tuesday 27 March 2001 Col. TOURISM (FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE) .................................................................................................. 1695 ENTERPRISE AND LIFELONG LEARNING COMMITTEE 10th Meeting 2001, Session 1 CONVENER *Alex Neil (Central Scotland) (SNP) DEPU TY CONVENER *Miss Annabel Goldie (West of Scotland) (Con) COMMI TTEE MEMBERS *Bill Butler (Glasgow Anniesland) (Lab) *Mr Duncan Hamilton (Highlands and Islands) (SNP) Nick Johnston (Mid Scotland and Fife) (Con) *Marilyn Livingstone (Kirkcaldy) (Lab) *George Lyon (Argyll and Bute) (LD) *Mr Kenny MacAskill (Lothians) (SNP) *Mr Kenneth Macintosh (Eastw ood) (Lab) *Des McNulty (Clydebank and Milngavie) (Lab) *Elaine Thomson (Aberdeen North) (Lab) *attended THE FOLLOWING ALSO ATTENDED : Mr David Davidson (North-East Scotland) (Con) Fergus Ewing (Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber) (SNP) Mrs Margaret Ewing (Moray) (SNP) Alex Fergusson (South of Scotland) (Con) Rhoda Grant (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Cathy Jamieson (Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley) (Lab) Maureen Mac millan (Highlands and Islands) (Lab) Dav id Mundell (South of Scotland) (Con) Dr Elaine Murray (Dumfries) (Lab) Mr Jamie Stone (Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross) (LD) WITNESSES Mr Alasdair Morrison (Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning and Gaelic) Dav id Wilson (Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department) CLERK TO THE COMMITTE E Simon Watkins ASSISTANT CLERK Linda Orton LOC ATION Committee Room 1 1695 27 MARCH 2001 1696 Scottish Parliament but all Scotland is experiencing a down-turn. The cities are not exempt; this is not just a rural issue. The cities have been more insulated to date, but Enterprise and Lifelong Learning the down-turn in places such as Edinburgh and Committee London gives cause for concern. To gauge the effects, I visited tourism interests Tuesday 27 March 2001 in Dumfries and Galloway and Perthshire to hear and see things for myself. Earlier today, Wendy (Afternoon) Alexander and I met several tourism representative bodies from around Scotland, to [THE CONVENER opened the meeting at 15:03] find out what assistance they feel that we need to provide. Foot-and-mouth disease is a UK problem and Tourism (Foot-and-mouth the solutions must be delivered on a UK basis. I Disease) will set out the position in relation to UK initiatives. As the committee will be aware, my Westminster colleagues have instructed the Inland Revenue The Convener (Alex Neil): Good afternoon and th and HM Customs and Excise to treat welcome to the 10 meeting in 2001 of the sympathetically applications from affected Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee. The businesses to defer payments of taxes and meeting is dedicated to the problems arising from national insurance contributions. The procedures the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak that are for allowing jobseekers allowance to be paid to faced by the Scottish tourism sector. affected individuals will be made as fast and I welcome the Deputy Minister for Enterprise flexible as possible. I am happy to advise the and Lifelong Learning and Gaelic, Alasdair committee that ministers will announce tomorrow a Morrison, and I thank him for agreeing to come to package of support initiatives for Scottish the committee at relatively short notice. I also businesses. We will outline a rates relief package welcome David Davidson, Elaine Murray, Rhoda for Scotland and we will further outline the crisis Grant, Maureen Macmillan, David Mundell, Alex support that will be available to the industry, which Fergusson, Margaret Ewing, Fergus Ewing, Jamie will be delivered through Scottish Enterprise and Stone and Cathy Jamieson. Those MSPs are not Highlands and Islands Enterprise. We will also members of the committee, but are here to announce an emergency package of additional participate in the proceedings. assistance for the tourism industry. The turnout by MSPs who are not members of The enterprise networks have put in place initial the committee and the fairly full turnout by support arrangements, which will be kept under committee members indicates the seriousness of constant review. Further action will be taken if the situation for the tourism sector in Scotland, necessary. Last week, I met representatives of particularly but not exclusively in the rural Scottish banks, who assured me that they will be economy. genuinely sympathetic to businesses that experience difficulties. Much of the recovery effort I ask the minister to make an opening statement, will fall to visitscotland and its marketing activities. which will last about seven to 10 minutes. After that, we will ask questions. Earlier today, the First Minister announced that Peter Lederer would be the next chairman of The Deputy Minister for Enterprise and visitscotland, with Mike Cantley as his depute. Lifelong Learning and Gaelic (Mr Alasdair Peter’s considerable experience of tourism and his Morrison): The official on my right is David knowledge of the industry will make him the ideal Wilson, who is head of the enterprise and tourism person to lead visitscotland during this challenging division of the Scottish Executive. I echo what the time. He will be ably assisted by Mike Cantley. convener said about the seriousness of the issue, which is reflected in the turnout of MSPs from all A draft recovery plan for the industry has been parties. produced by visitscotland, and Peter Lederer has undertaken to consider urgently which elements I welcome the opportunity to discuss with the need to be implemented now. Immediate action is committee the effect of foot-and-mouth disease on likely to concentrate on the UK market. As I have the tourism industry. It might assist the committee said, there will be help for Dumfries and Galloway. if I outline the measures that we are taking to help Tomorrow, Wendy Alexander will visit visitscotland the industry through the difficulties. The tourism to discuss further with the chairman various items industry is suffering badly because of cancelled relating to the recovery plan. bookings and a lack of inquiries for the season. Dumfries and Galloway will feel the worst effects, I am well aware that leisure activity in the 1697 27 MARCH 2001 1698 countryside has been badly disrupted and that tourism abroad? You have referred to tourism has suffered as a result. As Ross Finnie misinformation and disinformation that is being said during last week’s debate in the Parliament, spread in the United States—via the BTA, access is high on our list of priorities. I am sure allegedly. Will you make additional funds available that the committee appreciates that it has been to help market Scotland in the period ahead? necessary to take a cautious and balanced Mr Morrison: I am delighted that you said approach. As the committee will know, we issued “allegedly”. A great myth has developed that the guidance more than two weeks ago, on 7 March. employees of the BTA were coming up with stories We issued revised guidance last week, which such as the one about people being fined in the included “The Comeback Code”. Already, several Highlands and Islands. A great deal of froth has areas have reopened. We expect blanket bans on developed about the BTA. access to disappear and many more restrictions to ease between now and Easter, especially in the It goes without saying that the package that will area north of the Forth-Clyde valley. be announced tomorrow will deal with marketing. Again, I should stress that the detail of the We all appreciate that one of the greatest initiatives is still being worked on by my Cabinet problems is the media coverage that foot-and- colleagues. It is important that members mouth disease has been getting overseas. We are appreciate that the industry is helping to inform a doing everything that we can to ensure that the response. The summit that we had today was correct picture is being put across. Last week, I useful because it allowed the industry to set out its met Brian Wilson at the Foreign and priorities formally. Obviously, marketing Scotland Commonwealth Office to ensure that all our will be important, both outwith and within the UK, overseas offices are fully briefed and that they but the UK market is especially important for emphasise that Britain is open for business. Brian Easter breaks. Wilson told me that a personal instruction from the Prime Minister has been issued to the head of We have a lot of work to do. We could spend every UK diplomatic post in the world with the millions of pounds in north America, only to see all instruction that ambassadors are to engage in that work being undone by a two-and-a-half vigorous public diplomacy campaigns to promote minute report on CNN. That is why the the message that Britain is open for business. appointment of Peter Lederer is important. He is Also, the British Tourist Authority’s overseas an experienced individual and he is taking charge offices are being briefed daily. of the situation as of today. The detail will be made clear tomorrow. The greatest problem with perception is in north America, which is also our biggest overseas The Convener: Are you in a position to quantify market. My colleague at the Department of the impact of the crisis on the tourism sector? This Culture, Media and Sport, Janet Anderson, has morning, a report said that the sector would lose just returned from America, where she talked to £100 million in the next six months.
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