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With that in mind, I will today set out the new timetable for Scotland’s DRS and provide an overview of a new package of measures to simplify the scheme and support businesses to participate, and I will finish with next steps on our engagement with the UK Government.
I have lodged amendment 153 in partnership with Duncan Dunlop, who gave incredibly forceful and informed evidence to the committee throughout proceedings.Amendment 153 will place new duties on Scottish ministers to lay before the Parliament an annual report on the deaths of looked-after children and those up to the age of 26 who are in receipt of a continuing care service or an aftercare service.
That will open up a new market opportunity for the renewable heating sector, and will be an important step forward in encouraging the connection of new buildings to heat networks.
Improved connectivity would also strengthen the tourism industry and drive productivity across major sectors including aquaculture, fisheries, space and energy, unlocking new opportunities for long-term growth.
To help that, we also believe that greater transparency of intergovernmental working can lead to better outcomes and help Parliaments to hold Government and ministers to account. It is clear that we need a new approach, a new relationship and new ways of working.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the relative benefit to cost ratios are of building a (a) tunnel and (b) bridge as a new Forth crossing. On 26 June 2007 the Cabinet decided to pursue two crossing options (abridge at Corridor D just west of the existing bridge and a tunnel option at CorridorC) before making a deci...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
2 November 2012
Justice officials are, however, working with administrators of the current custody visiting schemes to consider options for a new statutory scheme, and to make recommendations to the Scottish Police Authority.