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We would certainly like a continuation of the traditional, time-honoured system of the enabling act attracting permitted development to the works authorised by it.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 January 2005
This will include a strategic review of care home provision, to identify the most effective way of developing and managing the market to meet the future needs of elderly people throughout Scotland.
Is it not a disgrace that one landowner can hold to ransom the future of the yard, which has benefited people in the past, myself included, and which could offer employment for the future?
When we were doing our piece of work on the future of Europe, the committee suggested that, should such a system be put in place, we would investigate with Westminster how the committee could make an input in relation to future Scottish legislation.
We should continue to improve and invest in those technologies, so that we build for the future. Does the First Minister agree that, in the medium to long term, greater emphasis on renewables could lead to lower energy bills for Scottish households?
The Executive has adopted a certain position so far, but it does not have to maintain that position; in future, it could take a different position on instruments that relate to co-decisions.
I hope that ministerial colleagues will ensure that no stone is left unturned to secure the future of the yard. Its closure would have a severe impact on West Renfrewshire and Greenock—many of my constituents work in the yard.