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"The Future of Europe: Reform or Decline", which is a significant new book by a gentleman called Alberto Alesina, highlights and debates the need to benchmark and improve the speed and cost effectiveness of legal services.
What has happened is what I suspected would happen, which is that it has transpired that fixed penalties are mostly all dealt with in the same way and that the Executive was suggesting a new or different way of dealing with them.
The knowledge transfer grant and the SEEKIT and SCORE programmes—the Scottish Executive expertise, knowledge and innovation transfer programme and the small and medium-sized enterprises collaborative research programme—have been specifically designed for that purpose. The new interface programme is specifically targeted at allowing business to access the ex...
Although no substantive points arise, there are still a few errors in the text, which we can raise informally—thank goodness. I agree. The new version is an improvement on the first version.
There is considerable scope for innovative projects and taking forward new ideas. In that context, I mention that, in July 2006, the Executive launched pilot projects for pre-school provision for vulnerable two-year-olds.