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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.
The past year has seen consent granted for the first new large hydro scheme for many years, as well as a multimillion pound biomass plant at Lockerbie.
At stage 1, the Executive informed the committee that it intended to adjust the bill in relation to the non-departmental public bodies that relate to the five national collections, which is an issue about which we were concerned. Therefore, new section 7(4A), has been inserted; it contains a new order-making power th...
The evidence of the BBC managers did not persuade me that it is possible to make such cuts in departments such as news and current affairs and expect the existing quality to be maintained.
Out-of-hours Medical Services (Rural Communities) (PE776) We move on to PE776 by John Macpherson on behalf of Braemar community council, which calls on the Parliament to investigate the merits of proposed new arrangements for out-of-hours medical services in remote communities such as Braemar.