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To ask the Scottish Executive whether any current NHS facility, including accident and emergency centres, will be closed as a result of investment in any new fast-track diagnostic and treatment centres.
Does the minister agree that Labour’s antisocial behaviour legislation has made a difference to people’s everyday lives across Scotland? Does he also agree that Labour’s new five-point plan on the issue is an important step forward in combating the scourge of antisocial behaviour?
Amendment 1 will substitute section 10 of the bill with a new provision, which will still extend the commission’s functions to ordinary local government elections, but in a way that will avoid the unintended application of other sections of the 2000 act to those elections.
I commend the crofters on their initiative, but I advise members that having wind turbines on croft land is a relatively new approach to the use of such land, which meant that there was no off-the-peg lease to use and that some thought had to be given to the initiative.
There is concern that the gap in provision might lead to the collapse of some of the most fragile forums in Highland, and that the new contract might not support the independent advice of local forums.
She will be aware that, as well as laying the Snares (Scotland) Order 2010, which came into force on 11 March and contains a number of new regulatory measures, we are progressing two changes to the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 through the Wildlife and Natural Environment (Scotland) Bill.
There is no power to make transitional, transitory or savings provisions. Given that the bill will create new criminal offences in relation to extant protection orders, and will make provision for the availability of legal aid in certain types of proceedings, do we agree to ask Rhoda Grant whether it would be appropriate to have the power to make such provi...
One of the innovative results of that new relationship is that we can buy back some of the days that were cut by adopting the further conservation measures that the fleet could put into practice.