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I give this analogy: if you go into a shop to buy a toaster and it does not work, you are entitled to get a new toaster or to get your money back, but if you go into a solicitor’s office to buy a house and it turns out that it is defective, you do not actually own it or there ...
To express these costs in today’s prices (i.e. real terms), prices have been inflated using GDP deflators from HM Treasury. The latest available data for these comes from October 2024.
To express these costs in today’s prices (i.e. real terms), prices have been inflated using GDP deflators from HM Treasury. The latest available data for these comes from October 2024.
Business Gateway and local authorities could help to promote the new policy. It is challenging for very small businesses to keep up with the latest legislation, so we need to make sure that those who support small businesses are aware of the changes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 September 2023
In the discussion, we have covered the issue of getting buy-in from individuals, but perhaps we have done that less so with regard to buy-in from sectors.
Dr Larissa Sandy, Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Nottingham told us that—
…in Australia and New South Wales, decriminalisation actually changed the approach to policing.
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Part 5 on asset transfersiiA request from the community to buy, lease, manage, occupy or use land or buildings belonging to a public authority and how that authority is to deal with such requests.
Eighteen months ago—well before the latest financial crisis that the Government has visited on Police Scotland—13 stations in Aberdeen and the shire were scheduled to be closed.