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Our intention has always been that the new duties in the Standards in Scotland's Schools etc Bill should be enforceable by that mechanism and we have introduced the amendment to give effect to that intention.
Businesses and individuals throughout Scotland will be able to take advantage of the greater flexibility of the system to drive down costs, reduce delays and improve the quality of new buildings.The new system clearly provides for the powers of the parties to the building standards system.
As before, we will highlight the substantive new text. There are lots of wee bits of editing that we could do, but the substantive new text will be highlighted and I hope that we can agree to most of it next week.
It had a £20 million landing craft contract with the Ministry of Defence, a £5.5 million contract with CalMac for a new 50m ferry for the inner Hebrides and a full repair and refit order book.
I do, however, remain committed to investing £100million of public capital in the development of a gold standard new children’s hospital.This is over and above the basic formula allocation which is approximately £100million per annum.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 August 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what impact the Department of Trade and Industry’s responsibility for reaching a justification decision on new nuclear power stations would have on the power of the Scottish minister with responsibility for planning to stop the building of new nuclear power stations in Scotland.