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The Scottish house condition survey indicates that, in 2012, 44 per cent of homes had a good rating in their energy performance certificates, which compares with only 16 per cent in 2007.
The authors wrote: “To achieve a level of certainty comparable to a handwritten signature, an electronic signature needs to be: Unique to the signatory.
In the review of all the councils, Aberdeenshire Council apparently came out as very underfunded for advice compared to, say, Fife Council and Clackmannanshire Council.
Completion rates have increased to a record 75 per cent and nearly 55 per cent of our 16 to 24-year-olds are now employed, compared with a UK average of 51 per cent.
I have spoken twice to Richard Cornish, who was comparatively recently appointed as the head of Jobcentre Plus, and I will have an in-depth meeting with him soon.
We would like to increase our capital spending by more, to see us through these difficult economic times and to sustain as high a level of employment as we can.The Government’s strategy in relation to capital spending is obviously paying dividends. Compared with the rest of the UK, Scotland’s figures for unemployment have been moving markedly down.
That would be a much friendlier method of resolving disputes.If I can compare the right to buy with the individual right to buy that was given to crofters, the opposition that is available to a landlord would be with reference to estate management or to financial hardship.
At the outset, I should say that I accept all the SSI’s proposals for achieving the required savings, except those in regulations 7 and 9, which relate to the stipendiary magistrate court.