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When we discussed the budget process at the away day, we took the broad view that we might want to have a familiarisation exercise at this stage because, as a new committee, we need to familiarise ourselves with the sources of education funding and how they fit together.
We have not yet had a summary of the expected outputs from the new spending proposals. I hope that those will be available as we go through the process for the coming financial year.I refer to paper FI/02/4/2, which gives guidance from Arthur Midwinter on the kinds of questions that should be asked.
We are meant to be actively seeking new industries in Scotland. Point 4 of the paper says that we could consider a draft stage 1 report at our meeting on 18 December.
Our view is that there is a potential disadvantage to litigants who under the new orders, if they are passed, would have access to the simpler, more straightforward, procedures—including timetable procedures—of summary court procedure.
Until we have an overview of how active the groups are, it is hard to judge whether the new applications are needed or whether they can be accommodated in the existing groups.
After section 3 I call amendment 19, which is grouped with amendment 20. Amendment 19 would insert a new section into the bill, the purpose of which is to establish an education convention to bring together experts in education and representatives of various education interest groups to provide a source of advice to ministers on the determination of the na...
If you intend to use Business for Scotland as a reference, you should involve organisations such as New Europe, Business for Sterling and, indeed, Britain in Europe, to balance the equation.
If you intend to use Business for Scotland as a reference, you should involve organisations such as New Europe, Business for Sterling and, indeed, Britain in Europe, to balance the equation.
Obviously, the EU agreed that a transition period was necessary before moving to a system of area-based payments. Is the new system on target? The proposals for the area-based system have been lodged with the European Commission as part of the Executive's rural development plan.