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Members will have seen from their e-mail that the European ombudsman, Jacob Soderman, is visiting Parliament on 3 May at 10 am. He particularly wants to meet the Public Petitions Committee.
Where there is a 42-day notification period, it will involve almost the same amount of administration as it would take to deal with a planning application: the application will have to be registered, its competency will have to be checked, consultation will have to be undertaken, the application will have to be advertised, a site visit will be required, and...
I want to make this point.We therefore believed that we were considering the £26 million package. We had to face the fact that our financial instrument for fisheries guidance contains no provision for a tie-up scheme.
The community recycling sector is diverting from landfill more waste than the best-performing local authority.On economic impact, the sector has an annual turnover of about £25 million to £26 million. All the figures are increasing since the mapping studies that we carried out in 2005 and 2003.
As the Enterprise and Culture Committee reported last month, Scotland lags behind its UK and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country competitors when its economic performance is measured against a number of key factors.The Executive's figures on business start-ups show that, with a VAT registration rate that was 26 per cent below the ...