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Members are aware that the petitioner has provided further information, which was circulated earlier this week; he argues that the distribution of the new EMA payments is "discriminatory and unfair".
Solar Power (PE637) PE637, from J Russell Thomson, calls for the Scottish Parliament to take the necessary steps to amend the planning and building regulations to ensure that each new building is fitted with sufficient solar panels to provide an adequate hot water system for the building.The petition is prompted by the petitioner's belief that, had relevant material on the benefits of a new advanced form of solar heating been available at the time of consideration of his original petition—PE267—on the same topic, the predecessor committee might not have accepted the Executive's position on the matter and agreed to take no further action.
I hope that we can hold off until May 2003. We are either expecting a new election in April 2003 or, to be serious, considering the impact for the new parliamentary session.
Expenditure Commitments To ask the First Minister whether any existing expenditure commitments will be cut to pay for new commitments on health and education spending and, if so, what these are.
Any such power of designation, which would replace the current but rarely used power, would apply solely to new tenants and would not affect the rights of existing tenants in any way.
Given your explanation of the cost pressures in the system, surely the Scottish Executive Health Department must have a handle on the cost to the system in the next two or three years of the new deal, the new contract for GPs, new consultants' contracts and the European Union ...