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I welcome members to the first meeting of the Communities Committee in 2005 and I wish you a happy new year.The first item on the agenda is consideration of a proposal that item 3, on the committee's approach to its pre-legislative work on the proposed housing bill, be taken in private at the end of the meeting.
Deputy Convener The next item is the choice of a deputy convener. It was agreed that the new deputy convener should be a member of the Liberal Democrat party.
Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2000(SSI 2000/13) Next we have the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Amnesic Shellfish Poisoning) (West Coast) Partial Revocation (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 2000/13). No new points have arisen on this order, as they have probably ...
Leaving aside the huge disruption that moving the toll booths will cause, the move will double the debt on the Tay bridge to about £26 million. That will make it difficult for the Tay Road Bridge Joint Board to meet its obligations to pay the debt off by 2016 and will burden the people of Tayside and Fife with tolls for decades to come."
To ask the Scottish Executive why an upper age limit is set for some of the grants available to establish new businesses. The Business Start-up Grant forYoung People in the 18 to 30 age group, delivered by Scottish Enterprise’s BusinessGateway network in conjunction with the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust,is the only grant scheme for new businesses with an upper age limit.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
5 September 2006
The Scottish Police InformationStrategy intends to deliver the new criminal history system to the Scottish CriminalRecord Office by the end of December 2006.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the steering group which has overseen the introduction of new arrangements for the supply of stoma appliances will be invited to reconvene to oversee the scheduled review of these arrangements in the autumn and, if not, whether all members of the existing steering group will be invited to sit on any new group formed for this purpose.