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I am a child of the 1960s, and I recall that when I went to schools they were new schools, when I went to health centres they were new health centres, or new health centres were being built, and when I went to hospitals, new hospitals w...
Members will recall that when Peter Beaton gave evidence to the committee, in private and public session, he asked us to consider whether we wished to make comments in advance of his next visit to Brussels, where he will represent the Scottish Executive.
The capital cost, at 1995 prices, included £146 million for infrastructure, £36.4 million for 26new trams and £1.3 million for land purchase, coming to a total of £183 million.
That is where all our questions are coming from. Given that a lot of new measures have been implemented in the past year—higher still going live for the first time, a new IT system, the SQA having to manage all the data, the new certificates—and given the history in the public...
The 1996 survey identified exactly the same situation. People tended to install new bathroom suites and put in new kitchens rather than repair the house.
It must be remembered that the competition acts prevent competition because they do not allow new producers into the market. In Denmark, France, New Zealand and the United States of America—the biggest free market of them all—new producers can easily enter the market because o...