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Management and operational practices may also be a barrier to modernisation in terms of service delivery. A new commitment to continuous improvement in local government has been taken forward on a voluntary basis so far in Scotland under the guidance of the Best Value Task Force.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 March 2000
Copies have been placed in SPICe. The new Programme, which supersedes and consolidates the existing five Programmes, describes the short, medium and long term projects on which the Commission will be working between now and the end of 2004.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2000
Now that the map of full and transitional eligibility for Objective 2 status in the new Programming round has been approved in principle by the Commission, Plan Teams in each area representing the locally-based partnerships have been working to complete draft Single Programming Documents (SPDs).
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 February 2000
The latter fund has supported over 300 new or improved bus services, over 70 community transport projects, and assistance for petrol station tank and pump replacement.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2000
When there is a change of Administration of Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, there is a long established convention that a new Administration does not normally have access to papers of a previous Administration of a different political complexion.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 1999
The Crime (International Co-operation) Bill, introduced in the House of Lords on 19 November, represents an important new step in the fight against international crime.The measures in the bill will lead to better cross-party—I hope so, yes—I meant to say cross-border anti-crime co-operation.
It is incumbent on the back benchers in new Labour to find a solution. Those members must believe me; I am not misquoting the remit of the group, I am reading from it—it is here in black and white.