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In "open to public tenders" on the third page, what are the exceptions that are referred in:"awarded to the successful bidder (except in exceptional and duly justified cases the lowest financial bidder)"?
The service is also involved in an international group that compares practice across prisons, although the group has not produced an awful lot of evidence yet.
Dairy Produce Quotas (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2004 (SSI 2004/118) There is a query about a reference made to paragraph (6) of regulation 12 of the principal regulations for a definition of "exceptional circumstances". There is a complex series of references to various bits and pieces, which I think we should ask the Executive about.
The next election may bring changes whereby, for example, the Conservatives go down and we go up, or vice versa, so that one party deserves one and a half places compared with half a place for the other.
Business start-up rates in Scotland can be compared with the rest of the UK using data produced by the Department of Trade and Industry on the number of businesses registering for VAT per 10,000 adults.
Forty per cent of households that include someone who classes themselves as disabled, long-term sick or ill live in social rented properties, compared with 30 per cent of the public as a whole.
That is always going to be a better way of dealing with things than is setting up a committee to consider the comparative merits of different proposals.The corporate body proposal is to have a body of MSPs making those decisions.