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Does the Scottish Government intend to evaluate whether social rented sector cases could or should be transferred to a tribunal system at some future point?
I think that what happened was that the forces knew that the transfer was coming and, to be fair to them all, a considerable amount of energy was put in to try to shut down as many cases as they could so that the transferred amount was minimised.
That continuing commodity service—I do not want to belittle it, but I will use that phrase—will be provided in-house because it has to be transferred to somewhere. We believe that, by transferring it in-house, we will have much more control over it.
Local government has been assured by me that it will receive 26 per cent of the capital departmental expenditure limit that is available to the Government over all of the next four years but that it will not come in a uniform, flat line—it will be lower in 2016-17 and it will be much higher in the later years of the spending review.
According to the figures, between 2010 and 2035 the number of people at state pension age will increase by 28 per cent in the UK and 26 per cent in Scotland. Let us put this in context and have some accurate facts and figures in this debate instead of the figures that the parties on the other sides of the chamber want to put forward.Scotland can more than a...
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Date answered:
24 November 2010
The Bill provides for new powers for the Westminster Government, by order, to amend the constitution of the Forestry Commission and to amend, delegate or transfer the functions of the Forestry Commission in relation to England.
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Date answered:
3 November 2010
Publication of the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley Joint Structure Plan in 2000 preceded the transfer of responsibility for rail strategy and funding to Scottish Ministers.
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Date answered:
22 September 2010
Scottish Government officials have had some discussion with Defra regarding a proposal by them to transfer the legal title and maintenance responsibilities for part of the road serving Site 6 Almondbank from Defra to Scottish Government.
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Date answered:
23 February 2010
The Chair of the National Programme Board for Prisoners'' Healthcare (NPBPH), Mr John Ross CBE, was appointed by ministers in March 2009 for a period of three years to oversee the transfer of prisoner healthcare to the NHS.