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	Alex Salmond — SNP - Scottish National Party
		He was first elected as MP for Banff and Buchan in 1987 and was elected as National Convener for the Scottish National Party in 1990.
		He served as leader of the opposition in the Scottish Parliament when he was elected MSP for Banff and Buchan constituency in 1999.
		He was re-elected as Leader of the SNP in 2004 and elected as MSP for the Gordon constituency in May 2007.
	www.snp.org /people/alex (316 words)

	Banff and Buchan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Banff and Buchan was formerly a local government district in the Grampian Region of Scotland.
		Created in the local government reorganistion of 1975, it combined the Aberdeenshire district of Buchan with the town of Banff and its surrounding portion of the county of Banffshire (the rest of Banffshire became part of the Moray district in the Highland region).
		The area is still used as the Banff and Buchan British parliamentary constituency and the Banff and Buchan Scottish parliamentary constituency.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Banff_and_Buchan (130 words)

	Scottish Political Timeline 1997 - 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lord Steel of Aikwood (Liberal MSP for the Lothians) is elected as Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament by 82 votes against 44 for George Reid (Scottish National Party MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife).
		Responsibility for the Scottish parliament construction project is transferred from the Secretary of State for Scotland to the Scottish Parliament Corporate Body, headed by the Presiding Officer, Lord Steel of Aikwood.
		The Scottish parliament assumes its powers when it is officially opened by the Queen of Scots in the presence of the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of Rothesay and the Scots Crown.
	www.alba.org.uk /timeline/1997to2003.html (3275 words)

	Banff & Buchan By-election 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Members of his Banff and Buchan constituency party unanimously backed the move at a meeting on Sunday night.
		He said the Scottish Parliament was the focus of SNP politics.
		Stan Tennant, the convener of the SNP's Banff and Buchan constituency association, said: "The constituency has decided that it wishes our MSP and MP Alex Salmond to remain as our Westminster representative, and to be our candidate once again at the forthcoming general election.
	www.scottishpolitics.org /banff/banff3.html (524 words)

	House of Commons Standing Committee (pt 2)
		Alex Salmond (Banff and Buchan): I have the report from the Scottish Parliament, and the Secretary of State was wrong.
		I realise that that cannot be sorted out in the short term, but in the longer term it is not sustainable for the communities that have the biggest interest in maintaining stocks and sustainability of fishing grounds to be routinely excluded from negotiations that affect their livelihoods.
		The suspicion persists that the Scottish record of maintaining the sustainability of fishing grounds is being ignored.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.com /pa/cm200203/cmstand/scotg/st021210/21210s02.htm (1669 words)

	Hill & Knowlton UK Election Watch 2005
		The periodic changes to parliamentary constituencies south of the border are on their way, but will not occur until the election 2009/10 so for now the number of seats in the Commons will be reduced from 659 to 646, with the figure required for an overall majority falling to 324 seats.
		The Boundary Commission of Scotland's work in reducing the number of constituencies now means that electorates in most seats have increased to the average size of electorates in England, at least for the time being, and goes someway to answering the critics who point to Scotland's disproportionate presence in the UK Parliament.
		Some sitting Members of Parliament, faced with the prospect of a contest with parliamentary colleagues to become the party's candidate in a new seat, decided that discretion was the better part of valour' and chose to stand down.
	www.netcoms.com /election2005/changes_in_scotland.asp (659 words)

	Scotland Guide - Government and Politics - The Scottish Parliament
		The Parliament was elected on 6 May 1999, reconvened after a 292 year gap on 12 May 1999, and assumed its full powers after the official opening by the Queen on 1 July 1999.
		The powers of the Scottish Parliament are based on those established by the Labour led Constitutional Convention.
		Until the new Parliament building at Holyrood is constructed, the Scottish Parliament will meet in the General Assembly buildings on The Mound.
	www.siliconglen.com /scotfaq/19_12.html (754 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Debates for 21 Jan 2004 (pt 21)
		As the Scottish Parliament enters its sixth year, it is legitimate to ask why the Government have completely failed to address that question.
		The Scottish people themselves realise that the issue must be addressed before it further undermines the new constitutional settlement.
		Even though the decision on whether to introduce that policy for their constituents was clearly within the remit of the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Members saw fit to troop lamely through the Lobby and save the day for their beleaguered Prime Minister.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200304/cmhansrd/vo040121/debtext/40121-21.htm (1304 words)

	SCC Final Document
		All the same, it is important to place the case for a Scottish parliament in its proper international context, as well as to argue for it in terms of Scotland's own historical, economic, political and cultural circumstance.
		That means a Parliament in which men and women are fairly represented in numbers broadly proportionate to their shares of the population, and which actively encourages the participation and involvement of all groups, including ethnic minority groups, in its consultative processes.
		These may be subject to alteration outwith the control of the Scottish parliament and it will therefore be necessary to ensure that separate boundary reviews for the Parliament can be carried through with the purpose of maintaining the size of the parliament and the integrity of the corrective effect of the additional members.
	www.almac.co.uk /business_park/scc/scc-rep.htm (10387 words)

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		Gordon MSP and Scottish Liberal Democrat Environment Spokesperson Nora Radcliffe MSP has called for the G8 summit to be carbon neutral and for it to generate real action from the G8 states to tackle climate change.
		Tourism is a major contributor to the Scottish economy, and we can see from the examples of the ospreys at Loch Garten and red kites at North Kessock the tangible benefits to the economy of wildlife tourism relating to reintroduced species.
		With no rail link to Banff and Buchan, the A90 takes a significant amount of freight in and out of the area whilst the growing population of Ellon should be taken into account.
	www.noraradcliffe.org.uk /pressArchive/may05.htm (2231 words)

	Allan Wilson MSP - Working for the people of Cunninghame North - Speeches to the Scottish Parliament - 2003
		The new session of Parliament is barely a month old, so I hope that the members of the new committees feel that we have fulfilled that commitment to Parliament promptly.
		Parliament therefore refer specifically to the European waste catalogue, which is a very broad listing of wastes.
		That the Parliament agrees that the draft Landfill (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2003 be approved.
	www.allanwilsonmsp.com /pages/speeches/2003/landfillopeningspeech.html (1178 words)

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