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The vast majority of activity by food officers and enforcement people who go on to manufacturers’ and retailers’ sites is advisory. They are doing a great job in helping people to do the right thing, which helps our customers and everybody else’s.
Where we are preparing for projects in the future and incurring expenditure on land acquisition and site preparation, that will be explicit in our accounts and our budgets.
This committee has been led to believe that the last time you looked at project transmit, it was still indicating transmission charges for Scotland’s islands that are several times higher than those for adjacent sites on the mainland. Yes—that is the case for generation.
The economic impacts of the credit crunch have been compounded by rising commodity prices and high rates of inflation, which are forecast to bring an increasing threat of deflation.
Such a price would have a bigger impact than a price of 50p or 55p, which might be the level that is struck. However, 26 per cent of the trade is own label, so the companies in that sector of the market would be hit straight away.
School Bus Safety (PE1223) Good afternoon, everyone. I bid a good new year to visitors to the Parliament. Welcome to the Public Petitions Committee's first meeting in 2009.
That point was emphasised to me by the visitors from Quarriers, whom I was pleased to meet and speak to earlier today—some of them are in the public gallery.