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The Executive has also issued formal offers of grant to allow two new Local Volunteer Development Agencies, in Moray and East Renfrewshire, to start in 2000-01.The Executive has awarded £221,000 to 13 new Millennium Volunteers projects for 2000-01.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 February 2000
As part of the new arrangements introduced by the Public Finance and Accountability Act, the aggregate figure for local authority capital allocations is specified in the Budget Bill which is subject to the approval of the Scottish Parliament.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 January 2000
I have announced today the establishment of a Supervisory Board which will consider how the Executive should respond to the challenges of new markets, techniques and technology in its dealings with suppliers.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 October 1999
While there will be some provision for central funding of the start up costs of the Commission, the aim is for the cost of regulation to be largely paid for by regulated care providers.Some staff currently employed by local authorities and health boards are likely to transfer to this new body. Any such transfer will take account of the principles of the Tr...
As a result, I make the plea that we should try to narrow things down a bit and keep the inquiry very focused.I know that we have discussed Scottish ministers' commitment to promote Scottish policy interests within the UK presidency of the EU, and I hope that we will focus on Scottish input to the presidency and how we take forward the Scottish agenda.
Applying the law as it stands, there cannot now be a prosecution at the instance of the Crown in this matter. Even if legislation was to be promoted to enable a Lord Advocate to depart from an unequivocal public pronouncement abandoning proceedings, it would not be possible to make such a law retrospective."
If members say anything interesting in their motion, it is not allowed to be discussed.The Procedures Committee has been visiting other Parliaments. I visited Catalonia and Norway, which have a procedure called interpellations, which is not a word that comes to us readily.
Today should not be about lulling the public into a false sense of security that something new is happening, because so far today we have heard nothing new from the minister.
Those concerns were subsequently confirmed when we learned that some of the amendments in the name of the convener were in fact submitted on behalf of another committee member. In addition—as the latest press reports imply, and as the convener has commented—some kind of group meeting or group activity took place, which could have meant that authorship exten...