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One of the reasons why the package that we hope to agree within the next few days will take time to phase in is that we need to recruit those new teachers. It will not be possible in the first year to do that, because many of the new teachers will still have to be trained.
Five hundred farms are now involved in the scheme, and 400,000 hectares of Scottish farmland are now being converted into organic production. That is meeting a genuinely new demand in the market and is good news for rural Scotland.
I mentioned the new transport agency. The Transport (Scotland) Bill, which proposes a new and important regional transport structure, is progressing through the Parliament.
What agencies are not currently covered? I can find none.Paragraph 7 of the proposed new schedule in amendment 2, which is on proceedings, says:"The Commission may regulate its own procedure (including any quorum)."
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 November 1999
This will give information on individual characteristics, previous work history and New Deal experience: what clients have done in New Deal, their feelings about New Deal and their destinations after New Deal.The GB survey is now procee...
Can the minister clarify whether the housing associations or the councils will be the providers of the new homes? The housing associations will be the providers of the new housing, but the local authorities will make the decisions about where investment can take place.
Increasingly, clerks have to rectify misleading submissions that are made by defence agents and new procurators fiscal. That is just a fact of life for us.