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Motion moved, That the Parliament agrees the following programme of business— Wednesday 30 January 2002 2.30 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Stage 1 Debate on the Fur Farming (Prohibition) (Scotland) Bill followed by Debate on Adoption and Children Bill - UK Legislation followed by Executive Motion in respect of UK Legislation followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members' Business – debate on the subject of S1M-2302 Dr Sylvia Jackson: Introduction of a Pollution Inventory Thursday 31 January 2002 9.30 am Stage 1 Debate on the Scottish Public Sector Ombudsman Bill followed by Financial Resolution in respect of the Scottish Public Sector Ombudsman Bill followed by Procedures Committee Debate on its 5th Report 2001 (Changes to the Standing Orders of the Scottish Parliament) and 1st Report 2002 (Changes to the Standing Orders of the Scottish Parliament) followed by Business Motion 2.30 pm Question Time 3.10 pm First Minister's Question Time 3.30 pm Debate on the Local Government Finance Order followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members' Business - debate on the subject of S1M-2528 by Mr Kenneth Gibson: Young Runaways Wednesday 6 February 2002 2.30 pm Time for Reflection followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions followed by Stage 3 Debate on the Community Care and Health (Scotland) Bill followed by Parliamentary Bureau Motions 5.00 pm Decision Time followed by Members' Business Thursday 7...
Are there any comments on rule 9A.1, which is on the first page of annex B, or rules 9A.2, 9A.3, 9A.4, 9A.5, 9A.6, 9A.7 or 9A.8? Is there a clearer way to word paragraph 5 of rule 9A.8, because a degree of Sir-Humphreyism has crept in?
Can you go on to the question about a new owner? The agreement will be between the local authority and the ratepayer, so if a property passes to a new owner, the new owner will have to agree to receive their bill electronically.
Is that fair enough?Members indicated agreement. New paragraph 3A(8) of schedule 2 to the 1997 act restricts the period of the scheme to five years and new paragraph 3A(9) gives the Scottish ministers a power to extend or further extend the life of the new scheme beyond five y...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 December 2001
Employment policy is reserved to the UK Government which takes the lead on funding and delivery of the New Deal. In Scotland it does this in partnership with the Scottish Executive and contributing Scottish organisations as indicated in the answer to question S1W-3137 also answered today.The expenditure on each New Deal programme other than the New Deal for Young People in Scotland from April 1998 to November 1999 was:(a) New Deal 50 plus pathfinder: £0.02 million(b) New Deal 25 plus: £9.2 million(c) New Deal for Partners of Unemployed People: £0.2 million(d) New Deal for Disabled People pilot: £0.5 million(e) New Deal for Lone Parents: £3.3 millionThe figure for New Deal 25 plus includes spending on employment subsidies.
The member should know that 97 per cent of new-build houses that Communities Scotland funded in the previous financial year achieved that body's energy efficiency target.