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The general services that all parents can benefit from are now threadbare. Health visiting is so overstretched and under-manned—or under-personed—that the latest proposal is that health visitors' visits be restricted to high-poverty and high-deprivation areas.
However, the 2007 local government elections will involve, as we have heard, the use of the new STV system alongside the Holyrood constituency and list counts, and the use of a new, untested electronic counting system.
On existing sites, we are converting the old accommodation into new and providing more places. For example, at the turn of the year, we will be opening new house blocks at two of our development prisons, Polmont and Glenochil, where there will be about 700 new places.
Can you go on to the question about a new owner? The agreement will be between the local authority and the ratepayer, so if a property passes to a new owner, the new owner will have to agree to receive their bill electronically.
Is that fair enough?Members indicated agreement. New paragraph 3A(8) of schedule 2 to the 1997 act restricts the period of the scheme to five years and new paragraph 3A(9) gives the Scottish ministers a power to extend or further extend the life of the new scheme beyond five y...
Although Alex Neil makes constructive points, we have no current plans to review the legislation on the matter. However, a new committee of the new Parliament after May might well take an interest in the matter.