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New business start-ups do not receive any specific rates reductions, although, there are a wide range of rate reliefs available to all qualifying businesses, including new ones.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 December 2004
Many partner organisations at local level also provide New Deal services under contract or provide funds and other resources including training funds to enhance the quality of New Deal in their areas.
The new scheme is based on the research and advice behind the recommendations of the Scottish local authorities remuneration committee, which reported in January 2006.
Can she assure Parliament that the new film information service will build on previous networks of contacts with key organisations to ensure a smooth transition to the new service?
Each one of us in our positions of responsibility must surely try to bring freedom to those who are in any sort of need, to those for whom we have such heavy responsibility.May the good news from Isaiah and the good news from Jesus filter through us to all who are expecting a message of hope at this time.
The health council will be a major new force in ensuring that boards engage far more effectively with their local communities, and we will also issue new guidance.
Some of that work is already under way—for example, in the new diagnostic services and community services that are being built at the Leith community treatment centre.
However, that will not lessen the problems that exist there. The new contract that has been agreed—subject to the ballot of GPs—will offer substantial opportunities not only for island areas, but for areas throughout Scotland.