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Date answered:
26 April 2000
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He would have been on safer ground with that than he has been with subsequent decisions that he has challenged.Ruth Kelly talks absolute nonsense when she claims that Scottish Transport Group pensioners have had parity of treatment with National Bus Company pensioners south of the border.
I presume that David Davidson was talking about the Republic of Ireland, rather than Northern Ireland; naturally, we organise things on a United Kingdom basis.
I am opposed to what is happening in South Lanarkshire, for example. However, when one talks about going into the green belt, one often means buying land from farmers rather than buying land from local authorities.
I do not think that that is enough to prove that someone has not paid. That is a wider issue. We are talking specifically about the process that is identified by the petitioner.