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I could index my 2002 salary at 100 and compare it with Tom Farmer's, and I might have outperformed him in percentage terms, but I would not have done so in real terms.
Currently the approach is totally market driven and there is no market mechanism that gives credit to timber for its benefits in being a low-carbon-cost material, compared with steel and other construction materials.
However, the average household charge in Scotland in 2005-06 will be £280. That compares, for example, with average bills of £283 from United Utilities and £296 from Southern Water.
Following the Spending Review in 2004, an additional £60 million is being provided in each of 2006‑07 and 2007‑08 for additional maintenance on local roads. Compared to the allowance made against this heading in 2004-05, this represents an increase of over 23%.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 January 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of the total estate and essential estate in each NHS trust in Scotland complies with health and safety legislation and how this compares with the figures in each of the financial years from 1993-94 to date.
Does Murdo Fraser accept that I endorsed the Enterprise and Culture Committee's position, which is that land attachment should not apply to a principal dwelling-house, except in the most exceptional circumstances, when creditors should have a right of appeal to the court?
Today, I came to work at 9 o'clock, which is comparatively late, and do not expect to complete my preparation for tomorrow's stage 2 consideration of another bill until 8 o'clock tonight.
The regulation that allows modulation would allow precisely what you ask for, which is to target money away from farms that are over-supported compared with the average, away from those that employ less labour than the average and—in an ideal world—away from those that produce higher than average profits.
In evidence, Jack Law of Alcohol Focus Scotland compared Scotland with other countries; in his interesting speech, Kenny MacAskill stressed many of those points and therefore spared me the temptation to be dogmatic.