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At the same time as the call for evidence, we commissioned a number of academics to look at how international comparators shaped up against our own perspective.
The Department of Energy and Climate Change’s revised energy projections to 2035 have a significant amount of extra gas built into the level deployed—an extra 12GW on the system by 2035 compared with last year’s projections. That suggests that we are heading towards a much more gas-based system.
We cannot make judgments on those small number of individuals who have had problems compared with the thousands of patients who have benefited from the procedures and who have had an improvement in their quality of life as a result.
That may be a dramatic fall when it is compared with the 8,145 people who were convicted of those offences in 2003-04, but too many people are still choosing to ignore the warnings and drink and drive.
I take your point, but these are exceptional times. If section 75 agreements are holding up the granting of planning permission, should the Government not look into them urgently?
How does our backing of the industry in that respect compare with that in the other countries that you deal with or speak to in international trade missions or exhibitions?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 November 2004
The output of this activity is measured in terms of the increasing take up of these programmes and the financial and emissions potential identified. Loan Action Scotland (LAS)Since its launch in 1999, LAS has awarded over 80 loans totalling £1.26 million.
With the performance indicators that we looked at in strand 2 of our inquiry, we should now be able to compare and contrast a bit better than was possible previously.