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The cross-boundary provision of control rooms would have been the opportunity for the next 50 years.The co-location of services on sites across the country would have ensured savings in relation to buildings, heating, facilities and support.
I have just come back from the convention of the Highlands and Islands up in Shetland. Slipped into my visitor pack was a copy of "Shetland in Statistics", which I must say is good value at £4—it is absolutely rich.
It is important to get the right data and to de-risk the prospects. We tend to find that it is not hard to come up with big numbers, but the industry is very loth to try anything that does not have a 15 per cent or higher chance of success.
No.I provide data voluntarily by way of my bank card, various credit cards, AA card—I hasten to say that that is my Automobile Association card—and organ donor card.
You touched on why your community wants permanent as opposed to mobile cameras, but would permanent cameras meet your community's needs once offenders knew where they were sited? Have you thought about that? I am thinking about hoodies using their hoods.
I would not try to read into our submission that we are trying to prepare the ground for tax increases, because we have not really expressed a view on that. 11:15 Fair enough.
At that point, all 32 authorities reported that they had, and no concern was expressed in those returns about the timeline.Last year, we surveyed all 32 authorities again.
We will take evidence on the order from the Minister for Parliamentary Business on 26 November before deciding at the same meeting whether to recommend that the order be approved. 10:11 Meeting continued in private until 11:13.