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I hope that we can hold off until May 2003. We are either expecting a new election in April 2003 or, to be serious, considering the impact for the new parliamentary session.
Expenditure Commitments To ask the First Minister whether any existing expenditure commitments will be cut to pay for new commitments on health and education spending and, if so, what these are.
Any such power of designation, which would replace the current but rarely used power, would apply solely to new tenants and would not affect the rights of existing tenants in any way.
We are highly dependent on the ONS for our economic and labour market statistics and we will have to work with the new board to ensure that strong and effective relationships continue.
Some of the supplementaries reflect new money; for example, the roads budget change is new money in the roads budget; it is not a carry-over from an underspend last year.This money in the urban programme is also new money.
The report of the CSG was one of the cornerstones on which the new Parliament was built. It reflected a high degree of public and political consensus about the way in which our new Parliament should operate.
The regulations propose a worrying reduction of ministerial powers. What is meant by "new information"? Can the Scottish ministers say that information that has been submitted to them is not new and that they will not consider it?