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The other view is that the Parliament has the right to instruct ministers how to use their powers.Earlier today, I asked the minister about the new budget and the new powers. I asked him who he was accountable to for spending the new budget; he answered that he was accountable...
I think that it is projected to increase sixfold in the next five years. Those who do not embrace the new technologies and new ways of doing business will lose out.
It is not good enough that Fife has to wait for improvements elsewhere before it gets new rolling stock. ScotRail recently ran a trial of a new Turbostar, which it hopes to run from Edinburgh to Aberdeen soon.
The consultation proposals were made last July, but the Executive's case has been weakened by the latest UCAS figures, because we do not know what the medical application figures are—although there is speculation about them.
I must confess that I have been much more encouraged by the latest responses of local authorities and other persons who are engaged in strategic, regional and local planning, including those in the private sector.
If the Scottish Executive commissioned work on new needs assessments in, for example, 2002, would you expect the Executive to be able to use those new needs assessments to distribute grant?