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At column 1224 of the Official Report, Robert Gordon refers to "trainees" and "training grades", but he should have referred to new deputes. Specifically, 30 people have been offered posts as new deputes rather than as trainees.
For that reason, it is vital that committee business has the opportunity to get coverage and interest that it would not get if it were held at the same time as the plenary session, which would inevitably get all the coverage.
At some stage we probably require to circumvent procedures to get to the necessary position. Anything that gets rid of compulsory competitive tendering—whether through policy or not—seems to me to be worthy of support.Members indicated agreement.
Where houses are lying empty and in areas where people do not want to live, it will be tenants who will decide on what gets demolished and what new homes will be built.
He is a lesson to us all.When considering big ideas, we can often get lost in interesting themes or in those ideas that seem attractive just because they are new.