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When you bear in mind the fact that 20 to 30 per cent of the cost of a new hospital is in buying the site, it seems strange to consider buying a site when you have one already, and when a flyover from a main dual carriageway is already in place, with easy access to the north and south.
The regiments are built on strong local, family, traditional and emotional ties. Those links die when regiments are disbanded, and often are not transferred when regiments are amalgamated.
In the case to which I refer, the committee agreed the importance of having in the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 a provision that the right to buy would be examined after five years.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2003
The exercise will be carried out on our behalf by the Audit Commission; because the commission has the infrastructure and technology in place, it is much more efficient and effective for us to buy into that system.The data will be drawn down this month.