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A couple of weekends ago, I visited Florence to renew my acquaintance with art treasures that I saw first as a schoolgirl, such as the Duomo, the churches of San Marco and San Lorenzo, and the statue of David in the Accademia gallery.
SEA is a vital tool in our work to ensure that when we seek to introduce new public plans for change in Scotland the environment is fully taken into account, not as an afterthought, but up front in the first stages of development of any new strategy, plan or programme.I have set out the general principles that we see...
I will use the new royal infirmary as an example. Like others, I have visited the new royal, which is a tremendous and wonderful hospital that I am sure will serve well the people of Lothian and beyond.
The local plan is meant to be where all the available sites are considered and where discussion is held about where, in principle, it would be best to put new housing or new sewage facilities.
I would also like the committee to write to the care commission to ask it why—given its fee structure, in which it records the various establishments that it is required to inspect and visit—it does not have details of who has which services?
The Conveners Group was not happy with the second proposal that we put to it for visiting Australia in November. The main issue was cost: the amount for which we were asking was a substantial part of the Conveners Group budget.
On the same day, President Rigol of the Catalan Parliament visited us and there was a highly useful exchange of views on some of the work that can be done between the two Parliaments in the run-up to the intergovernmental conference.