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Studying the scheme to find out how it delivers would help the minister to evolve similar schemes knowing what worked and what did not work.Today is a good news day, and I hope that we can do even better in future.
Network Rail needs planning consent to build new stations, bridges and tracks. However, no planning permission is required for masts of nearly 100ft in residential areas.
Would it be better if the situation were the other way round, so that unless the Executive were active in introducing a new instrument, the previous one would lapse after a certain period?
I want to ask the housing associations—and Bield Housing Association in particular—whether any of its new build houses include sprinkler or mist systems.
If the Parliament decides to appoint him to that new role, he will have my support. The question that we must deal with is whether we have confidence in that appointment.
Scottish ministers intend to make provision for unmarried partners in the new pension scheme for civil servants, which is expected to be introduced in spring, 2002.