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Includes High Court cases and those where court location is not known.7. Includes theft from a motor vehicle by opening a lockfast place (these offences are not generally identifiable separately in the court proceedings statistics for 2000-03).
That might take time, but, as I said at the beginning, time is what we have. The new treaty will not come into force for several years and the new voting arrangements will not come into force until 2009.
Before seeking other members' views, I offer the reporters an opportunity to comment on the petition and on the recommendation that is made in paper TE/02/17/7. It is appropriate that the petition be discussed in the light of the draft service specification when that is published.
However, vacancy rates are still unacceptably high.Our latest figures, which date from the end of October 2004, show that national vacancy rates for local authority social workers are running at 11 per cent.
Schools (Sport) To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make a statement on the number of school sports co-ordinators. (S1O-175) On 7 June, I announced that the first tranche of school sports co-ordinators would be appointed in 87 secondary schools.
However, we need to ensure that staff members buy into the framework's policies. One way to achieve that is through our new performance management system, which covers every staff member from front-line staff to the chief executive.