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I hope members agree that it is important that we get it right. No interests of justice would be served by passing legislation that failed the test, with the result that someone who otherwise would have been found guilty walked free.
One or two members have still to arrive, but we are quorate, so we will get started and try to keep the meeting on timeāin so far as that is possible.I ask the committee to agree to meet in private at our next meeting on 7 June, to consider a draft stage 1 report on the Bail, Judicial Appointments etc (Scotland) Bill, as is our normal practice for draft rep...
I could go on for ever making the case for Glasgow, our biggest city, which gets no special additional funding for policing football matches and so on.
We want to bring forward legislation, but it is far more important that that legislation is robust and can stand up to challenge than it is to rush things and get the legislation wrong. I am not sure that I would use the word "rush" to describe what has been done thus far.
We are attracting international companies to bring new investment into Scotland, such as Barclays, which recently announced 500 new jobs, First Data, which announced 430 new jobs, Shell, which announced 100 new jobs, BSkyB, J P Morgan, ...
Waste Water Services To ask the Scottish Executive how it will ensure that waste water services are not adversely affected by new housing developments. (S2O-6969) Where Scottish Water believes that the waste water infrastructure is inadequate to support a proposed new development, it will advise the local planning a...
New Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh(Food Hygiene) To ask the Scottish Executive what powers it has to intervene if it is dissatisfied with food hygiene standards at the new royal infirmary of Edinburgh.
The results from the rural analysis were used by the Executive to improve the evidence base and to get a better understanding of how, if at all, businesses in rural areas differ from businesses in urban areas.