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How you achieve impact, which is the other side of the coin, is about identifying your priorities in the strategy and those areas where you can—and where you have an opportunity—to generate new wealth.
Another 16 Bank of Scotland branches are scheduled to close in 2024. So this latest sting, to withdraw these mobile banking services the length and breadth of rural Scotland, is nothing less than a double-cross—it is a con trick.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 November 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Minister for Commonwealth Games and Sport will raise human rights issues during her visit to Sri Lanka. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-18350 on 26 November 2013.
Its submission states: “In sections 25 and 26 with respect to the postponement of local government elections the local RO or the Convener of the EMB as appropriate has power to postpone the poll for up to 2 weeks.
A response which focuses on commitments to update an action plan, amend certain policies, or task a further policy team to develop new policies would not be acceptable.
As part of our consultation, we are looking at a new offence of obstructing a local authority officer and new fixed penalty notice powers for breaches of dog control notices.