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The collection of council house rents is a matter for individual local authorities. As part of their response to the Best Value initiative a number of councils are undertaking or plan to undertake a detailed service review of their rent collection and housing allocation policies and procedures.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 September 1999
The collection of council house rents is a matter for individual local authorities. As part of their response to the Best Value initiative a number of councils are undertaking or plan to undertake a detailed service review of their rent collection and housing allocation policies and procedures.
To ask the Scottish Executive in the light of the recent report prepared for Glasgow City Council's Best Value review, what plans it has to review the funding of Scotland's museums and art galleries to ensure that council tax payers are not subsidising national resources.
I support the suggestion of the main voluntary groups that there now needs to be a period of consultation and my officials are in close touch with those involved to see how the Government can best assist. S1O-00021
I support the suggestion of the main voluntary groups that there now needs to be a period of consultation and my officials are in close touch with those involved to see how the Government can best assist. S1W-00136
However, I should say that it is more important for the Scottish Parliament to be discussing the extremely important issues of health, education, crime, transport and jobs rather than talking about ourselves and self-preservation.
Members should bear in mind the fact that he was the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs at the time that the statistics relate to. I am talking about a promise that the Labour Government made in 1999 to ensure that 80 per cent of children reached a certain standard within four years.
That kind of terminology invites questions and might cause people to wonder what we are doing. We talked about that figure in the Subordinate Legislation Committee this morning.
The combination of the hard work of many of our public agencies to ensure that we work in partnership and the work done by VisitScotland through its developing website will result in much more progress than we have had even in the past few months.