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Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
Will you look to rectify that?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
Okay. I will be checking the website in the next few weeks. [Laughter.]
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
My questions are also for VisitScotland, so Vicki Miller might want to have a glass of water before she responds. [Laughter.]
I will continue with the theme of Gordon MacDonald’s questions by asking you about your shift away from having information centres to making greater investment in your digital transformation strategy. Will the saving that you make on the information centres be pushed into the digital strategy to help you to enhance that?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
Okay. One of the good features of the website is that you promote Scottish football across the country—a visitor who wants to come to Scotland to see a match can type in what they want to see. However, curiously, every item that the site displays about Scottish football matches shows a person on a snowboard up a mountain. Did you know that?
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
I have raised some localised questions, but they are important. The website is what I would see if I was a visitor wanting to come to my part of Scotland, and I have to say that it is really not all that impressive. However, I am encouraged by what you say about your investment in the strategy to improve the digital content and make it a great experience for visitors who want to come to Scotland.
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
I am just wondering why that hotel does not feature. This morning, I did a little search on your website. This is a localised example that I want to share with members and ask you about. If you search your website for the Park hotel in Kilmarnock, you get 13,000 hits, but none of them is the actual hotel.
Economy and Fair Work Committee
Meeting date: 11 September 2024
Willie Coffey
There is a problem with that site. I am therefore very curious about your digital strategy and how you deliver such information.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Willie Coffey
Okay. I think that that is clear.
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Willie Coffey
The committee has heard concerns about how the tribunal operates, particularly in relation to the time that it takes to deliberate. There has also been a suggestion that we need an ethics component in consideration of the processes, because that is singularly missing from the work of the tribunal. Has the Government thought about that aspect in order to widen and strengthen the work of the tribunal?
Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee
Meeting date: 10 September 2024
Willie Coffey
Good morning, minister. I want to clarify a point on the application of rent controls, which was discussed earlier. Is it the case that a rent control area can come about only if a council recommends to you that it should come about, because you have the power to designate rent control areas? Is it likely, possible or otherwise that you could proceed to declare rent control areas without the local authority seeking them?