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In my winding up, I will address specifically the point that Andy Wightman made. He expressed the view that my amendment is not necessary and that the bill is just tidying up the language of the 1997 act to reflect the new reality.
—Official Report, Local Government and Regeneration Committee, 26 September 2012; c 1200. I do not believe that that is a serious argument against bringing much needed clarity to the law in this area.I move amendment 14.
One of the main reasons why the £259 million of non-recurring Covid-19 consequentials was de-ring fenced was because councils need the flexibility to address the Covid-19 pressures in their particular areas.
We have a presence on social networking sites, but it is not about delivering a service through those sites or making all our material available there.
In “Strengthening Scotland’s Future”, the UK Government’s paper on the bill, there is a series of points—on pages 22 to 26, if I remember rightly—on how the process will be managed.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many expressions of interest have been submitted to develop wind farms in the Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley parliamentary constituency.
They all wandered in just as I was preparing to deliver my closing speech in the debate on mental health, so for a moment I thought that I might be more of a crowd puller than I am generally given credit for. The work that they do nationally, regionally and locally really deserves credit and our gratitude.