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First, although it may appear that the existing screen of vegetation and trees provides some noise screening, the laws of physics do not support that claim.
We will be able to share ideas on best practice and how to improve the work that we do. In light of that visit, we might want to defer any committee away day until later in the year, rather than have one over the summer.I have taken some informal soundings and talked to the clerks about our likely time commitments, and those are my recommendations.
I thank those party leaders and representatives of parties who have spoken this afternoon and all those other members who have expressed their support and sympathy in recent days for those involved in the tragic event in my constituency.I know that those who visited the site of the explosion in Maryhill and who met some of those most affected by it will agr...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 February 2002
Information is kept on the basis of numbers of visits rather than visitors. The figures given, therefore, include both individual high-profile visitors and group visits to the Parliament.)
A reasonable person might expect that when owners and tenants lose their rights, freedoms and earning capacity, compensation would be paid and socio-economic considerations would be taken into account, but that is not happening.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 August 2001
I invite the committee to express its support for that visit. I am totally in favour of the visit—I was in Czechoslovakia during the velvet revolution.