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To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made in establishing the customer standards code of practice in accordance with section 26 of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 October 2002
The long-term impact of the right to buy social housing has meant that without replacement of every house that has been bought under the right to buy, we have a problem.
Mike Russell's amendment 2 refers to a child who will be five years old"on or before the appropriate latest date".It is not clear from the wording of the amendment which appropriate latest date is being referred to.
The Convener of the Holyrood Progress Group has informed me that the reference in The Herald newspaper of 26 September 2000 was to the tender documentation relating to the external cladding of the MSP building.
However, we should double our potential every year. The latest figures suggest that online education is projected to be a £50 billion a year business by 2003.
There is no way in the world that, from 26 June and the subsequent dates that Mike Russell mentioned, anything could have been done to avert the crisis.