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Section 34 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 requires those handling waste to ensure that it is handled in a fashion that “promotes high quality recycling”. Return points, producers and Circularity Scotland, when handling return scheme packaging, including glass, will therefore have an obligation to promote hi...
At its most recent meeting, there was a presentation on the latest assessment of flood risk in the area, following some work that Falkirk Council has done to obtain new data, which has allowed it to produce a much nicer map.We have been supportive of the bid that Falkirk Council has made for a tax increment financing...
In addition, our commitment to increasing the number of GPs by 800 in the next decade will ensure that GPs can spend more time with patients who need to see them. The latest figures show that we now have a record number of GPs in Scotland—an additional 75 GPs and GP registrars.
I thank Marie Gougeon for raising that issue. I am absolutely dismayed by the news that I heard this morning from the European Commission that Dundee’s European capital of culture bid looks as if it will be the latest victim of the Tories’ obsession with taking this country out of the European Union against our will,...