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She could introduce a statutory instrument—an order in council—to amend paragraph 4 of schedule 4 to give the Scottish Parliament the power to modify schedule 1. There is no need for primary legislation—let the Scottish Parliament decide.
As I said, the consultants have completed phase 1 on the airport links. We expect to have something to say in late summer about the routes that are under consideration.
The first case in Scotland was confirmed on 1 March. A week later, there were eight cases; a week after that, there were 24 cases; last week, there were 46 cases and we are now up to 54.
They cannot be effective if a breach of probation or community service takes place on 1 January 1998 and the person is not brought to court until January 2001.
We are continuing to take evidence to inform our consideration of the bill at stage 1. I do not know when the bill will be introduced, but I suspect that it will be some time later this week.
We heard evidence from the assessors that, in order to calculate the poundage, one must know the rateable values following 1 April to work out the yield from the increased rateable value.
In the main, we have accepted its recommendations. We have also announced £1 million to make a start on delivering some of the key strategic changes that were called for by the working group.