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The east coast main line, for example, does not end in Edinburgh, and new proposals that are being made by both Virgin and Great North Eastern Railway refer to tilting trains.
I refer the minister to the Edinburgh Evening News of 27 March, which announced that a 50 ft by 50 ft hole has opened up in the proposed route for the A701.
Trish Godman joined me, in general terms, in asking for this matter to be clarified.The proposed new section 3A(b) refers to someone being"connected by residence or otherwise".The phrase "or otherwise" is vague, and does not have a specific meaning.
In particular, will he comment on its initial proposals to increase corporate services by 21 per cent—more than £1 million of new expenditure—to be funded by a nursery school closure, other school closures or mergers, community hall closures and by reneging on the previous Labour commitment to fund the excellent Barnardos Freagarrach project for young offen...
This week we have put an additional £14 million of new money into the national health service in Scotland, half of which is specifically directed to intensive care and high-dependency beds and to medical equipment.
There has been a significant increase in the targeting of the prawn fishery, not only by former whitefish boats, as Mr McGrigor described, but by new, efficient, under10m boats. There is now an opportunity to develop both the fishery and the market.
Is the minister aware that in the East Lothian News and in the East Lothian Courier on 25 June 1999, reference was made to savings—a nice way of putting it—of £920,000 in the social work budget?
The plan is that the draft will be published within the next few weeks and that the bill will be formally introduced in the chamber early in the new year. I confess total ignorance about how those matters work.