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That will help greatly to move matters forward.The law requires councils to set out appropriate reasons if they wish to expedite the process and reduce the number of weeks for consultation from 70 to 26. Again, I cannot prejudge a decision, but I encourage councils to think hard about taking that course.Once the local plan alterations are in place, NPPG 16 ...
Amendment 20 is grouped with amendments 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 38. I call Bill Aitken to speak to and move amendment 20 and to speak to all the amendments in the group.
These technical amendments clarify what is meant by the term "provisional release date" in paragraphs 26 to 31 in part 3 of the schedule.I move amendment 49.
We would be delighted to take less revenue from cigarette sales, but one of the positive developments in the past 12 months has been that, as a result of taxation of smokers, £26 million has gone directly into public health work in Scotland.
They may have felt that the local enterprise company was not giving them enough attention and that it was regarded as just one of 26 islands in Argyll. The community set up the Mull and Iona Community Trust, which is a company limited by guarantee and which has charitable status.
Yesterday evening, the committee took evidence from Massachusetts about the approach there, which involves publishing on the web information on people who are called level 3 offenders.
We have issued an open call for written evidence and have received several written submissions, which have been circulated to members and which are available on the committee's web pages, for the benefit of members of the public who are interested in following the inquiry.
That is a big issue because, as I mentioned in the written evidence, some local authorities allow access only to an intranet, but not to the internet, which will have an impact if the DAS is web-based. There are infrastructural problems.
I also know that the partnership agreement commits us to "Ensuring sufficient resources are available for the non-trunk road network".I gather that we will know the full figures from the SCOTS survey when it is made available via the web browser next week, so I urge the minister to put into action a long-term plan as soon as possible.
When we produced a guide to business services and published it on paper and on the web, all the small businesses suddenly had access to information about where to go for assistance.