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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the new social landlords proposed under the New Housing Partnerships Programme will have to be incorporated as Industrial and Provident Societies, to become Registered Social Landlords.
As a result, it should be argued that additional rates income is good news as it reflects new business start-ups and not any additional costs for existing businesses.Irrespective of Mr Monteith's arguments, we should acknowledge that a cut in non-domestic rates means a cut in public services.
In the end, a powerful EU delegation was brought across to visit some of the more remote parts of northern Scotland to see how difficult it would be to administer a sheep tagging identification scheme.
That reflects the point that Mr Monteith made: the creation of a path can be held up easily if there are 114 agreements and one non-agreement. The prospect of any new path is sunk at that point. People often desire to have circular walks.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 November 2006
The same patient may havemore than one new out-patient appointment or episode of care and, as a result,every appointment or episode will be counted each time.3.
I have been keen to ensure that, as we allocate new money—such as the new money that was announced yesterday for looked-after children—we express where the money is going rather than concerning ourselves with the amount of money that is being made available.
We will consider the new order in a fortnight's time. The minister's letter will be relevant to our consideration of the new order, which has exactly the same policy intention as the order it replaces, which is revoked with effect from 22 January.I hope that members followed all that.
How on earth can he achieve his class-size reduction targets for 2007? It might be a new year, but it appears that we have the same old moaning Scottish National Party.