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Brian Monteith, Cathy Peattie and Nicola Sturgeon visited it. Several of the questions that Nicola Sturgeon and I asked this morning came from our visit to Riverside.
We must be on red alert, so that the new health committee in the new session of Parliament will be fully aware of the controversy behind the directive.
The committee has been on evidence-taking visits and, on a visit to the Stirling area, it met at one of our focus groups representatives of a disabled group, who complained about being targeted because of their disabilities.
We have completed two: the baseline report, which examined the position that SEPA was in some time ago and which contained certain significant challenges for SEPA, and the latest report, which indicates that SEPA has made good progress.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2001
The measures in the latest amendment to the building standards regulations will improve energy efficiency in all new buildings, but do not prescribe how the standards must be met.
I do not, because I do not see it doing any good. The latest information is that 97 per cent of users are not helped by the programme, so what is the use of it?
It will undoubtedly be before Christmas. At the latest, it will be early December, but we are in contact with the office of the Minister for Parliamentary Business in order to secure the appropriate time.