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In collaboration with COSLA and the councils, we are working on developing standard induction material for new members. We expect 50 per cent of elected members to be new, so the induction pressure on councils will be much higher.
Such a separation would be a particularly good idea in the context of the elaborate new voting system that we are introducing for the local government elections on 3 May.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been to Scottish taxpayers and council taxpayers of the Prime Minister’s visit to Scotland on 15 February 2007.