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In 1997, when the Conservatives were in government, we had a net gain in new businesses that were registered for VAT—contrast that with a net loss of VAT-registered businesses in 2004.The Enterprise and Culture Committee commissioned a report that compared the performance of the Executive's economic agency with those in other countries, and found that Scott...
It would then be lawful for the authorised undertaker to take the land or, as the case may be, a right over the land in question and execute the works in accordance with the sheriff's certificate.The proposed new subsections make it clear that when a person has been given notice under section 36(1), they can give to the sheriff and the authorised undertaker...
The scheme that is set out in the draft order marks an important step towards finalising the arrangements that were introduced by the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2003 for dealing with serious violent and sexual offenders. The act provided for a new sentence—the order for lifelong restriction—to deal with very high-risk offenders.
Today, our job is to move on, building on the new confidence in the fingerprint service and ensuring that everyone who is involved in the case can move on with us.
We have spent the past year trying to do some of this work. You are new to the committee. This committee has been up and down the country speaking to disabled people, including disabled young people— The committee has been doing great work.
We have not yet received a reply, and I am sure that members will agree that we should expect a reply in time for our first meeting in the new year. Of course, our list was not exhaustive, so we have included an extra paper on energy issues among the papers for today's meeting, in annex A to paper EU/S2/05/19/3.
I realise that Nicola Sturgeon is still new in her job, but is she prepared to accept that, on this occasion, she was wrong and should apologise to Parliament and, more important, to the health care staff of the royal infirmary of Edinburgh?
For example, where a deadline is set for a particular piece of business, we might wish to amend the deadline by changing only the number of days that is specified.Other additional changes are also recommended for rule 17.2. We recommend introducing a new element of flexibility into the rule to enable an alternative provision to be substituted for the part o...