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In some areas, the partial removal of services and widening of frequencies is the first stage, moving on ultimately to the removal of services that the industry was previously in a financial position to support but which it is now saying can no longer be supported as commercial services and have to die. In conjunction with that, the industry is looking at t...
I know that some consultants receive an award for two or three years and that the reward is then carried on in retirement at half the rate until they die. That is because, in the pension system, the pension is based on final salary.
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence."
Many of the living cultural events that are listed on the website—events that bind communities and give people a sense of identity—are linked to our built heritage.
To ensure that people are aware of their basic rights and information, we have translated a lot of our core material into a range of other languages and have made that available on our website and in local offices and have given copies of those leaflets to other agencies.
While I was thinking about what to say in this afternoon’s debate, I read on a website:“The purpose of regeneration is to improve the social, economic, physical and environmental wellbeing of our local communities.”A local community activist who read that might wonder what it has to do with them.
When we go into a consultation now, we know where to look for evidence and how to do the financial analysis that is required—there is a calculator for GAE on the website—but the three-week period is irreplaceable.
I believe that the Subordinate Legislation Committee suggested that the regulations should be laid under the super-affirmative procedure, and we are considering that.
We have considered the Subordinate Legislation Committee's recommendation that significant restrictions should be placed on the scope of the powers that section 4 seeks to introduce or that orders that are made under those powers be subject to super-affirmative procedure. We believe that it is vital to retain some flexibility to amend the pre-action require...