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However, I am struck by the fact that, although the sums that were involved at individual authority level were comparatively small beer, the increase had landed on people's desks just a fortnight before the budget—which I think is what COSLA said.
Rather than lodge several pages of technical amendments to the original order and ask members to compare it with the proposed changes, we have chosen to revoke the original order and replace it with an entirely new one.
It is clear that there is debate and disagreement about what coverage we have within the Scottish Parliament compared with the coverage within the Westminster Parliament.As a result of today's debate, would you agree to provide guidance to all MSPs about parliamentary privilege?
As a former member of the consultative steering group, you, Presiding Officer, will also have enjoyed observing the progress of the bill.The bill deals with a comparatively minor matter and should not have been contentious.
This has already happened in the case of comparable legislation considered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and by the Westminster Parliament."
The census provides detailed information on a range of topics, down to the level of local areas—information that is not directly comparable throughout the whole of Scotland.
Such statistics were presented to the Scottish Parliament and portrayed an unrealistic view.ADPS in the only project of its kind in the United Kingdom and is comparable only to a project that the Gallaudet research institute in Washington DC carried out.
If so, is there some way of making the documents more directly comparable? I am not sure whether there is a statutory reason for setting out the documents as they are.