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That would be especially so if the super-affirmative procedure were not adopted, which, as I understand from the Executive's letter, is a matter for the Procedures Committee.
More than a billion people—a sixth of humanity—live on less than a dollar a day. Half a million women die every year in childbirth and more than half the population of Africa do not have access to life-saving drugs.
Whatever any of us thought about the creation of the super-regiment and the retention of the Scottish regimental identities, the reality is that there will be one Scottish regiment.
Headlines signal the constitution as a blueprint for tyranny and the creation of a federal super-state but, for some, it is merely a tidying-up exercise.
We work in a multi-modal industry.Safeway acquired a lovely grant to send wagons to Inverness and on to Thurso on the back of trains. That is super because it means that I do not get held up at 40 mph behind their lorries on the A9.
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Date answered:
23 January 2007
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Today we are announcing details of St Andrew's day events that will be held in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Stirling—in fact, the biggest celebration of St Andrew's day yet. The website scotlandistheplace.com gives details of the events that are being held.
To give you one example off the top of my head, I refer to the HMIE report on Our Lady of the Missions primary school in East Renfrewshire, which I think the BBC website says is the best primary school in Scotland.
We have investigated cases in which we have identified opportunities to intervene under existing legislation. There is a new case on our website and in our annual report this year under the name of Mr H that I would encourage the committee to have a look at.
The tariff is published on the ORR and NR websites. The mechanism works by differentiating between different types of traffic; the wear and tear that particular types of vehicle and load cause to the network is taken into account in the changes that are applied.