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The outline procedure suggests that the subject of the meeting should be relevant to the local population and the committee should show that it will benefit the people in that area if the committee meets there. Where a site visit is proposed a committee should demonstrate that it is essential to enable it to understand the topic being considered.
Every local authority now has a dedicated antisocial behaviour team and a community warden service. Increasingly, local agencies are working with local communities and making effective use of the powers available to them to tackle the scourge of antisocial behaviour.
The document examines the options for building on the improvements that we have already made to rail services to encourage more people to make the shift from private car to the train and to encourage many more businesses to shift from transporting goods by lorry to moving them by train.
Will they now support the Edinburgh airport rail link, which will help Scottish financial services? Will they support Scottish Enterprise's work on skills training, business support and economic regeneration, which is helping to create jobs and growth in Scotland?
We ensure that the contract for trunk road operators across Scotland includes a heavy burden in respect of road safety issues and therefore on working with communities and local police services. I would be happy to take up the points that Mr Purvis has raised, but I assure him that we take road safety very seriously in designing robust contracts for our tru...
The support will be tailored to meet individual needs and local circumstances and will include Jobcentre Plus services, one-to-one counselling and advice, comprehensive information packs and access to high-quality training.
The petitioner could perhaps argue that elected councillors have made choices to spend money that might have gone into such maintenance on other services, such as education or social work.COSLA rightly highlights the arguably unsatisfactory situation with regard to the activities of what we usually call the public utilities, most of which are now privatised...
Our curriculum includes 13 qualifications in subjects such as financial services. We want vocational options to be available to everyone, but we want them to be a particular priority for the education and inspiration of those young people who are not being well served by our education system.As well as being highly supportive of the goal of providing all pu...
We will continue that work and see that the bus operators provide the types of bus that are needed to provide a better service for the constituents whom Mr Stone represents.
(S2O-10489) We recognise the additional anxieties and difficulties that are faced by people with serious illnesses such as cancer, and we take seriously the points that the report has made.We have circulated guidance to national health service boards to ensure that patients are made aware of the two existing national schemes that allow for the reimbursement...