Current status: Answered by Jack McConnell on 12 July 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide a list of the members of the Scottish Valuation and Rating Council, and whether it intends to appoint a representative from the Federation of Small Businesses, the Forum of Private Business, and the Chambers of Commerce to the Committee.
Appointments to the Scottish Valuation and Rating Council are made on a personal, not a representative basis. The current members are :-
Professor Gordon S Milne, Chairman
Bill Anderson
Michael Barclay
Duncan Chisholm
Ian Coull
John Devine
Christopher Haddow QC
Geoffrey Johnston
Professor Douglas Mair
Bill Neish
Peter Paisley
Thomas Scholes Albert Tait