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Applications for consent for any new electricity generation plants over 50MW in capacity are considered by Scottish Ministers under the Electricity Act 1989, rather than under Town and Country Planning legislation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
19 March 2001
Young homeless jobseekers may be given early entry to the New Deal. The Executive is also assisting young homeless people through the New Futures Fund which has provided funding for 29 different homeless projects across the country.
Members may wish to note that the Executive has noted a flaw in the drafting of SSI 2007/186; new instruments were laid last week to revoke and replace the order, and we will consider those instruments at our meeting of 28 March.
Housing (Right to Buy) (PE950) Petition PE950, by Andrew Doak, calls on the Scottish Parliament to urge the Scottish Executive to review the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (Scottish Secure Tenancy etc) Order 2002 to ensure that tenants retain pre-existing right-to-buy terms if they are compelled to take up a new tenancy as a result of being the victims of ant...
(S2O-11043) Local authorities, with our encouragement and support, are examining all aspects of sustainability in commissioning new school buildings through PPP and other procurement routes.
I want to see what ideas the group comes forward with and what the new community justice authorities are going to do in their areas to join up better the work that is done in prison and in the community.
The petition calls on the Scottish Parliament to debate the use of public-private partnership funding to build new schools and to urge the Scottish Executive to provide adequate public sector funding for local authorities, which are better placed to meet the needs of the local community, to build new schools.At its m...
Basically, if the Erskine bridge tolls were to continue beyond July, there would have to be a new Erskine bridge tolls act or a new order to extend the tolling period by a further five years.
I was somewhat surprised to hear that the news had been conveyed in a private letter to the president of NFU Scotland and that no attempt had been made to draw that information—which amounts to a U-turn in Government policy—to MSPs' attention.