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More than half of them thought that the line would be used by their business and 26 out of the 37 firms thought that they would benefit from the improved access to labour.
I wonder whether approaches have been made to such delegations to suggest that they might visit the Scottish Parliament while they are visiting the UK.
What are your views on the likely impact of noise barriers on the landscape adjacent to Baird Drive and on how long it would take for new landscaping to develop into the sort of mature landscaping that exists at present, which we saw on a site visit a few weeks ago?
The major decreases are in expenditure on communities programmes, down £35 million in real terms—I will come back to that—and in the unallocated capital modernisation fund, down £26 million in real terms. However, all is not as it seems.
In those circumstances, I will use the powers that I have under standing orders and section 26 of the Scotland Act 1998 to require witnesses to give evidence under oath.
As my visits around the country have confirmed, the new qualifications are benefiting people in the 16 to 18 age group with different abilities and levels of achievement.
At the time, the advice was that there would be difficulties; turning a willing volunteer in a primary school into a modern language teacher after 26 days of training was a serious expectation.