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Producing nuclear energy costs Scottish consumers money.Nuclear energy, as even Mr Gallie must know, is unnecessary. Scotland exports 26 per cent of the energy that we produce and we produce 26 per cent of our energy by nuclear power.
However, vacancy rates are still unacceptably high.Our latest figures, which date from the end of October 2004, show that national vacancy rates for local authority social workers are running at 11 per cent.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 October 2003
(b)Business research and development (R&D) expenditure is published annuallyby the Office for National Statistics, the latest figures relate to R&Dundertaken during 2001.
That might take time, but, as I said at the beginning, time is what we have. The new treaty will not come into force for several years and the new voting arrangements will not come into force until 2009.
I see in our papers that members of the Palestinian Legislative Council visited the Parliament in 2003 to see how the new Government in Scotland works.