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I was driving at whether the post would be a new function requiring new personnel and new costs or whether similar work is being done just now, although not as comprehensively.
Committees have sometimes consulted at stage 2, but the rule should be that they must consult if significant new proposals are made or if, even though the proposal is not new, the mechanism for achieving it is new.
If I had been the chief executive of a council in 1995 and I had approached you and said, "It will be difficult for me to produce my latest set of accounts, because it is difficult for me to access a number of documents.
I do not think that the Executive's 26 planning officers are enough to deal with the sort of complaints that will arise as people understand that the planning system has changed.
The issue of resilience is important. We face a new threat. In Scotland, we do not simply view the new threat in terms of the aftermath of the terrorist attacks but in relation to climatic changes and so on.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 September 2003
In relation to the Waverley project, what difference will we notice from the new arrangements? I rather hope that they might be good news for that project.