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How this will impact on employment will depend on how new contractors operate. However, I expect the TUPE Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations to apply.
We believe that they are the sort of people who will staff the senior management positions in the new companies, or start up new companies of their own, of which we have a number currently running.
Substantial sums of public money were being handed over to new boards for the first time. Those boards comprised people who were all entirely new to the task.
Are you confident that the process of reform that you have undertaken took on board the concerns of the organisations that are part of the new, more integrated structure? Yes.
If anyone seriously questions the wisdom of that approach, they need only look at New York. In the 1980s and 1990s, New York had an appalling record on crime and, interestingly, community policing had withered away.
Primarily, the trials are about how the crops perform commercially—such trials are conducted for any new crop, whether it is GM or not. It takes between 12 and 15 years to bring a new variety of potato to the market.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what discussions ministers have had with UK ministers about the implications for Scotland of a decision on whether to replace Trident with a new nuclear weapons system. Defence matters are reserved.Scottish ministers have not had any discussions with UK Ministers on this issue.