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Ted Brocklebank is no longer a member of the committee, but I welcome our new member, Derek Brownlee, to his first meeting.That moves us seamlessly to agenda item 1, which is a declaration of interests.
His figures were rather low; our latest survey shows that 19 per cent of airport passengers use the airlink bus service and 2 per cent use coaches that are chartered to pick them up for tours of Edinburgh and the like.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 January 2002
The Scottish Executive has published a booklet, Your right to buy your home, which all prospective homeowners considering the right to buy option are encouraged to read.
We want transparency and fairness in the amounts that will be taken from local government and health boards to pay for the new arrangements, and in the level of fees that the new bodies will charge.
Are you asking whether it would have an impact on new deals? Yes. If you are using the PFI structure, there would certainly be an impact on new deals, because you would need to look at the credit quality of the new entity that was paying the unitary charge.
Today, The Scotsman draws attention to the latest report from the Office of Water Services, which ranks Scottish Water below every one of the 22 privatised water companies south of the border.