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The rules represent a change in policy because they change the amount of short leave that a prisoner can get. The Subordinate Legislation Committee felt that it was necessary for the Executive to explain that policy.
It is important that we ensure not only that our shipyards are competitive and can compete for the contracts, but that they can get the contracts in the first place.
I do not know whether that was because different people were involved, but given that the witnesses came from the same local authority, perhaps we were getting a local perspective rather than an all-Scotland perspective.
Therefore, I think that the federation should be left to get on with it. Ultimately, the test for including information in the census is its usefulness to the wider populace rather than to one narrow section.
Does the minister put any of that down to the fact that, according to his predecessor, the First Minister would not take growth seriously and she could not get the economy on to the Labour Executive's agenda?
Is it not time that the acting First Minister put some of his principles into practice and did something to live up to the demands of his back benchers by tackling cronyism and by getting fair voting into our local authority elections?
Many petitioners think that we can be. We must get the message across to those petitioners that there is no point in sending us their complaints about specific planning decisions because we cannot do anything about them.
It was drawn to my attention at the weekend that interested members of the public in my constituency have been unable to get hold of that consultation paper because it is out of print.The consultation period might expire while people who want a copy of the paper—some of whom live within the proposed national parks—are being told that they must get the document on the internet.