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Some 90 per cent of the bill aims to tighten the rules to cover new forms of gambling.The bill will also provide new protections for children and vulnerable persons, which are important in the context of social responsibility.
I move to amendment 40, in the name of Bruce Crawford, which we discussed at our previous meeting with amendment 26. It relates to a substantive amendment that was disagreed to.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2000
We must recognise the fact that simply bringing in civic studies will not result in people voting at the age of 26, 36 or whatever. The issue is getting them to participate in the democratic process, and a large part of that depends on literacy.
The option of housing the two bodies together was not realistic financially when the SQA was set up, as we did not have the funds to buy and create a new office.An awful lot of people who worked in Dalkeith seemed to live in Dunbar or over Soutra, so we had to do the best that we could with the existing buildings.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress has been made through the National Waste Plan towards achieving recycling and composting rates of 30% by 2008 and 55% by 2020. The latest figuresfrom the Scottish Environment Protection Agency show that we recycled/composted24.4% of municipal waste in 2005-06.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive what its latest projections are for the population levels in Scotland in (a) 2021, (b) 2031, (c) 2041 and (d) 2051, broken down by age.