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To ask the Scottish Executive when the Airdrie to Bathgate rail link will be completed and when the new service will be operational. The rail link is planned for completion by the end of 2008 with new services running shortly thereafter.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
30 March 2004
The bill proposes a new statutory basis for inquiries, with the aim of enabling them to work more effectively, more flexibly, more quickly and at lower cost than has sometimes been the case.
Those who are involved in trafficking, whether for sexual exploitation or for forms of non-sexual exploitation, should feel the full force of the law.The penalties that will be available to the courts for the new offence reflect the seriousness with which we view such crimes.
If there are further complaints—even complaints of the same nature—those will be a matter for the new commissioner, rather than for the previous acting commissioner.
Not in any sense relative to the situation in the past. Cassettes perhaps offer a new and higher standard. That is why we are keen for them to be introduced quickly and efficiently.