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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 February 2001
These measures take into account environmental conditions within the catchment and the latest scientific and technical information.It is important that farmers understand the rules and what they need to do to comply with them and we will provide help in the form of guidance booklets in order to assist farmers in this process.
The resulting average cost figure is uprated on an annual basis. The latest published figure for the average cost of answering written questions is £115 (Hansard, 11 March 1999, Column 363).
We invited trusts to take action on those recommendations and to use some of the indicators that we provided to improve the quality and efficiency of the service. The latest report considers progress against that baseline.
You asked for the matter to be checked out, but if it had not been, he would have been back on the streets and neither you nor the local police would have known. My daughter visited him about three or four times when he was in prison.
As I said, the mentoring project now has 26 mentors. Had we the resources and the structure, we could easily double that number, but we are constrained by the present funding arrangement.