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When assessing an offshore wind farm application and its cumulative impact on European protected wildlife sites, the Scottish Ministers, as the competent authority, must undertake an appropriate assessment.
This report informs the decision making process on whether or not to purchase a site. Once a site has been purchased, an Environmental Impact Assessment screening exercise is undertaken.
The debate has moved on quickly from the tax credit reductions and the mitigation of those because of the autumn statement, and understanding the impact of abolishing the work allowance is probably the most urgent issue that we now face in relation to universal credit.
It does not seem unreasonable that Parliament should be able to express a view in some way. The Glasgow event was incredibly well organised, not just on our side but by the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations.
One reason why we did the workshops was to ensure that a large number of organisations that are interested in the issue had an opportunity to express their views. That is why we ran a full public consultation, with more than 180 organisations expressing their views.
The point that I made in my written submission was that our understanding of the distribution of pollution is very much based on the current concept of fixed-base monitoring sites, and those are relevant only to the immediate locality of those monitoring sites.
Scottish ParliamentAudit CommitteeWednesday 26 November 2008 Scottish ParliamentAudit CommitteeWednesday 26 November 2008 The Convener opened the meeting at 10:02Decision on Taking Business in Private Decision on Taking Business in Private Good morning.
Not for the first time in a section 22 report, we make that judgment on the need for a stronger performance report in the Scottish Government consolidated accounts, which would allow the user to see not just the amounts in totality that have been spent against budget but the outputs that flow from that and, more importantly, the outcomes. We give appropriate credit in this year’s report in saying that the performance report has evolved with greater clarity and connection to the national performance framework.
In the past three to five months, we have been working a lot with First Glasgow, which has produced credit card-sized cards to give to members of the public, to explain the fare structure.
In the previous year, we received some fairly significant credits from our mobile telephone contract, which had the effect of suppressing the 2017-18 figures and making the 2018-19 figures look higher by comparison.