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What are the committee's views on the clerks arranging such a visit with the promoter? Are we agreed that the visit should happen on 1 March, if that is possible?
The other problem is that we will not know that the culture has changed until we get there. There will be a transitional period between making the new act and secondary legislation and preparing the strategic and local development plans under the new regime—particularly for authorities that require to come together in new forms.
The Executive has some way to go in that area, but we are starting to consider it seriously. We are only two years into this new form of democracy and new form of government in Scotland and it will take us a while to get that sorted out.
—Official Report, 4 November 2004; c 11594.Progress has not been made. Things have got, and are still getting, worse.Earlier this year, the Scottish Executive said that failing teachers would be assisted to find new careers.
As far as I know, such research has not yet been done, so it would be new and there would be interest in applying for the contract.My second suggestion, which is similar, is to get an idea of the room for manoeuvre within the budget in any one year.
It is up to prospective purchasers of baronial titles to carry out adequate checks and to ensure that they are getting what they think they are getting.
I remind members that next Monday we will visit HMP Greenock and I think that Donald Gorrie, Lord James Douglas-Hamilton and I are going to visit a young offenders project in Inverclyde.
I note the suggestion in the letter from the leader of Argyll and Bute Council that the Rural Affairs Committee should visit Islay. Do you have any plans to make a visit?