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It would be valuable to exert more effort to establish what enacting new legislation means for staff hours—whether those of police or support staff—because only then would we know the true cost of any new initiative.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
31 January 2007
When visited by an enforcement officer,the person with fire safety responsibilities may be asked to discuss the firesafety risk assessment and explain the action taken as a result of theassessment.
It will take a little time for the operation of the new building to settle down. It is a brand new building and factors such as visitor numbers are to an extent unpredictable.
Those could be a wide range of things, such as building new roads and offshore wind farms. We need much greater clarity around the definition of what is and is not ecocide.”
Tribunal membership
The Committee report recognises that power to temporarily authorise existing judges to sit on tribunals is not new, and is necessary in order to address capacity issues in Scottish tribunals.
However, the failure to meet the internationally set targets in the Rio Convention, to preserve biodiversity, led to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity setting new targets for 2020 ("the Aichi Targets") in 2010.
A significant area would have been added to the park, so both the new communities and the existing communities would need to be consulted on a new park plan.
What will it mean for any future visits? I am not opposed to visits to take the committee to other cities of Scotland—I have a particular objection to a visit on this petition.
I wonder whether you are talking about the Red Hook community court in New York. I think that I am. We are aware of that model and the minister has been out to visit it.