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A seminar with the children's commissioner will be held in the Parliament on 26 October at 6 o'clock. That will be our initial opportunity to meet her; obviously, the committee can invite her back if members feel that a session would be useful.
Since 1997 we have had 71,000 job losses in the manufacturing sector in Scotland. The latest growth figures, which came out yesterday, show that although the Scottish economy is growing—only just, but it is growing—manufacturing continues to suffer.
Given that a number of us from the Parliament will visit Malawi next week as part of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association visit, and that we will meet Malawian fair trade sugar and coffee producers, what message should we send and which questions should we put to the Malawians about the prospects of the Scottish public sector buying their products and supporting economic development in that country?
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Date answered:
25 October 1999
Amendments 22 and 23 address that commitment by removing the power to acquire compulsorily those whole plots of land identified in the new subsection. The amendments give statutory effect to agreement reached between the authorised undertaker and the owners of the plots of land referred to in new section 13.Amendments 24, 26 and 29 to 34 remove and replace references to the affected land from the schedules to the bill.
I thought that we were hearing from the ministers that they would withdraw this policy and introduce a new one. When will that happen and what form will the new policy take?
One of the comments that we received was that we should strive for more than the minimum requirements in new buildings. When I visited a recently upgraded community centre it amazed me that someone planned a whole new entrance so that wheelchair users could get in, but they co...