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In the past four or five weeks in particular we have had an extended range of visits. We are trying hard to construct a range of positions on which we are prepared for the December council meeting.
The first provision does not include that time limit, so that anyone who wished to make what might be described as an unannounced visit to a nest site could still do so as long as they let the landowner know that they were going to make that visit.
If we want to ensure that Scotland is not a haven for criminals, we will want to ensure that the sentence for a particular crime, such as serious drug dealing, is comparable with—not necessarily the same as, but comparable with—the sentence in another country.
Impressively, there was a reduction of some 40 per cent in reported incidents of group disorder and disturbance compared with the previous summer break.
People who complain to stores say that the response they receive has worsened, with only 30 per cent saying that stores responded well to complaints, compared with 32 per cent in 2003.What can be done?
On Ali Jarvis's suggestions for ways in which the committee might carry out scrutiny, there is a question about how the process of mainstreaming has been arrived at and the extent to which expectations on equalities that have emerged from certain functional areas have been placed on third-party organisations such as local authorities.One particularly significant area for committee scrutiny will be the forthcoming three-year spending review. When we compare...
Is it true to say that the network gets almost 80 per cent of the Scottish roads maintenance budget? When compared with the maintenance budget for local roads?