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House prices in Edinburgh meant that many people left the city, so there was a severe fall in the school rolls and spare capacity in schools. Young families who wanted to buy houses moved out of the city to Midlothian and West Lothian, where we ended up with overcrowding.
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Date answered:
28 February 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what advice it has received on whether seizure of mobile phone batteries by Tayside Police at the recent Arbroath FC versus Aberdeen FC football match was lawful under section 51 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001.
Although the number of people in Scotland who die from solvent abuse is far smaller than the number who die from drug abuse, any death is one too many.
Scottish ParliamentEdinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill CommitteeThursday 7 October 2004 Scottish ParliamentEdinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill CommitteeThursday 7 October 2004 The Convener opened the meeting at 12:48Interests Interests Welcome to the sixth meeting of the Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee.
Diego Quiroz outlined the SHRC’s concerns about the draft assessment, telling the Sub-Committee that it did not give consideration to ECHR articles 6 (right to a fair trial), 7 (no punishment without law), 9 (freedom of thought, conscience and religion) and 10 (freedom of expression).
The impact assessments are not hidden documents—the Commission makes them available on its website at the end of the process. The proposal contains an explanation of the reasons behind it and the applications of subsidiarity and proportionality principles.
In the interests of openness, I will place those reports on the Scottish Government website in the coming days. It is important that we all work together to learn all the lessons that we can from Kerelaw.