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I have a final question. What are the top priorities for investment in infrastructure that would do most to improve the standard of our railway service in Scotland?
Section 110(3) amends the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 to insert a power to make regulations concerning information to be supplied by local authorities to persons buying their council house. The legal advisers are satisfied that the negative procedure is appropriate.Members indicated agreement.
The deadline for legislation is the end of 2002.The wider review of diligence—covering issues such as bank arrestments and debt arrangement schemes—is also making good progress at official level and I hope to issue a consultation paper around the turn of the year.We will introduce a bill to modernise the law relating to civil marriages, which will take over from Euan Robson's bill.There will be a substantial bill on land reform that will provide a right of responsible access to land and inland water, a community right to buy...
We therefore use our surplus capacity and our by-products for those processes; we do not buy especially for those processes. How far back do the surplus by-products go?
In addition, the staff have had the time to buy into the programme. The situation is not necessarily the same in Barlinnie, where the programme is delivered in—I think—the top flat of Letham hall.
They tell me that there are opportunities at grass-roots level and at the very top level, where the cream get support, but that in the middle we have no rungs on the ladder.
Those advisers were the Scottish judge who was the first ever top judge of the European Court of Justice, Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, and the chief legal adviser to the Commission, Dr No?.