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Essentially, we are looking at areas such as procurement, ensuring that we are maximising the use of national contracts and looking at how we buy goods. We are looking at being as efficient as possible in our use of staff time for that.
Our current assessment is that this would need to be something of the order of £5 million a year and that that might lever an equal amount from other sources."FCS also said:"Elevation to National Development status raises expectation.
However, given the concerns that have been expressed to me and the underlying problems that many in the port industry perceive in this regard, I will press amendment 7. The question is, that amendment 7 be agreed to.
—Official Report, Written Answers, 7 June 2007; S3O-86.A number of points arise from the written answer that I received and from concerns that have been raised with me.
They are increasingly being relied on.We foresee continuing evolution of customer feedback websites such as tripadvisor, blogs and information websites, which have developed fairly recently.
As long as the advertiser can justify it somehow or other—it is better than the unhealthy alternative—we will buy it. Is 2 per cent less saturated fat good?
I asked why not a single health, education or justice project is listed on the Scottish Government’s future deals website, given that NPD has been the Government’s preferred procurement model for the past 30 months.
The up-to-date material that Mr McLetchie is looking for is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week on the Government’s website. I am not sure where Mr McLetchie is encouraging me to go with this line of questioning.