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To ask the Scottish Executive what improvements in journey times between Edinburgh and Glasgow it has secured under the new ScotRail franchise. The new franchise agreement is based on the current level of service.
The Executive clearly says that the one-off set-up costs of a relocation should be assessed—that is, the costs that occur in the months following a move to a new location but which are not expected to recur.
I have a couple of questions about the suggested new model of competition and the new framework for the water industry, whereby domestic customers will be dealt with by Scottish Water and industry will be dealt with differently.
We appreciate the need for flexibility, particularly when the Executive is cutting new ground, but the Parliament should be in on such dramatic changes.
Everyone will lose the plot, given the amount of new information that will come out. People will not know whether the money is new money, replacement money or money that has been relabelled.
Towards the end of her letter, the Minister for Communities talks about the number of houses that will be built and the amount of new money that will be released to build new houses.
The estimated cost of replacing Trident is £25 billion—about £2.1 billion for Scotland. That could pay for new secondary schools, five new hospitals, 30 new community sport centres, 100 new doctors, 100 dentists and 200 teachers—the lis...
Members indicated agreement. Section 43 also inserts new section 27K into the 1982 act conferring the power to prescribe by act of adjournal the manner of application for a recovery order.