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I ask you not to pin me down to an exact figure, but we can compare 2014 with last year. In 2014 more than 100 legislative proposals came from the European Commission—I think that there were 120 or 130.
It was my intention to press the amendment because I feel that there is unfairness in Scotland compared with England. However, in discussions with the cabinet secretary, he has given me an undertaking that he will work towards addressing that unfairness.
Gender is such an important issue in the debates that we are having about gender representation on boards, the on-going issues regarding maternity rights or the many other issues that we deal with at a European level. Compared with when my baby was 11 weeks old, when I could take my son into Parliament to go and vote and that was viewed positively—as you...
That is an area that we will want to pursue with the Government, because it is a strange anomaly that we have a lot of police data that can tell us about the activities of school-aged children outside a school but we have no comparable data about what is actually happening inside that school.
That is an interesting way of looking at the matter; I had not thought of it like that, but it is interesting to compare and contrast. Governments hold discussions and find a way forward, and that is what we expect to do.With regard to preparation, Scotland will be one of the most prepared countries ever to be in the position of moving to independence.
The second part of my question is how that compares with the overall regime in terms of recovery of costs that are incurred by local authorities in making good dangerous and defective buildings.
We have to emphasise a central forecast in part because, like it or not, the primary task we have been given is to judge whether the government has a better than 50% chance of hitting its targets, which implies comparing those targets to a median forecast.”
However, there is a deficit in that service compared with ours, because we are aware of all the other funds that are out there, of all the governance issues and of all the legislation such as that on VAT and the charity law burdens that apply to organisations.We can provide a more comprehensive and holistic service to organisations that are applying for str...
Is there a suggestion that the hoops that people must jump through—there might be four, five or six steps before someone is appointed—might mean that those who are not habitual board members and would like to become a board member for the first time are at a disadvantage, compared with those who are seeking to move from one board to another, and who go thro...
However, we hope that such a facility will come on stream in future. We buy small volumes of fuel compared with the amount that a local authority buys.