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The single pension would be higher by £26 a week if the Tories had not broken that link—or if new Labour had restored it—so we will not be taking any lessons from the Tories on pensions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 February 2007
The next meeting of the All Party Group will consider anyrecommendations that come out of this conference.The full Fair Trade Nationcriteria (announced by the First Minister on 3 July 2006) which were developed in consultationwith the Welsh Assembly Government and the Fairtrade Foundation, can be foundat http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/News-Extras/fair-trade. S2W-31200
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 January 2002
I am pleased to announce that following an open competition towards the end of last year 12 new Independent Assessors have been appointed for a period of three years commencing 1 January 2002.
Given the timing of the bill, we expect to have that discussion in private session at the evening meeting on 26 June. Would that be agreeable to committee members?
An appropriate multiplier is applied to the multiplicand, and the resulting figure is the loss of support.My serious concern about the Government’s amendment is that in section 7(1)(e) reference is made to“any multiplier applied by the court”.The section goes on to instruct the court to apply the multiplier“from the date of the interlocutor awarding damages”.The date from which the multiplier is to run is new...
It will still be up to judges to decide which offenders fall into the new categories and whether the evidence supports the case that a hate crime was involved.
Every day, one in 10 of the population visits a community pharmacy; more than 60,000 people visit their family doctor; 8,500 people visit the dentist for a check-up; 2,700 people receive a free eye test; and district nurses make 12,600 visits.
The commission is served by Audit Scotland, for which I am the accountable officer, but reporting work on individual councils goes to the Accounts Commission.When the new audit arrangements were being put in place for the establishment of the Scottish Parliament, it was felt—I was a leader in the line of argument—that it would be inappropriate for democrati...