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The fight on asbestos continues and I would like to draw the minister's attention to a particular issue to do with asbestos.We have planning laws for new build, but we have very weak planning laws for demolition.
We have no desire to make the overall cost of Scottish universities more expensive than the cost of their English counterparts. However, the new fee should be sufficiently high to influence demand.
I suggest that the aims of the petition are covered in the Executive's Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Bill. As a new member of the Justice 2 Committee, I know that that committee has taken evidence on the bill, which covers many of the comments that the petitioner has expressed.
We support the principles that are set out in that guidance and we welcome the fact that the guidance will be updated to reflect the new landscape of Scottish local government.However, in the Parliament and elsewhere, there have been calls for greater certainty in accountability arrangements on these matters.
He is particularly concerned about the proposal to build a new bus station and Harvey Nichols store on the site of the St Andrew Square bus station and the fact that the new station will be separate from the train station.The petition deals with a substantial issue.
However, the job creation targets for the project have been revised downwards from the original target of more than 3,500 new jobs by 2006 to a revised target of fewer than 2,000 new jobs by that year.
However, there can be no doubt that the Scottish Parliament has been unfairly tarnished by events in another place.Of course, we are a new Parliament, set up to provide a new way to govern our nation.