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Members indicated agreement.Draft Instruments Subject to Approval Draft Instruments Subject to ApprovalScotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc) Order 2004 (draft) Scotland Act 1998 (Transfer of Functions to the Scottish Ministers etc) Order 2004 (draft) No significant points arise.
We have also held down the level of transfer of blue whiting to Norway. That is a smaller transfer compared to last year, by 32,000 tonnes, and will be a welcome boost to the Scottish pelagic fleet.
New subsection (2A) includes a provision that empowers ministers, on the dissolution of an RTP, to transfer functions back to the original person who carried out the functions before they were transferred to the RTP.
My information gives a range of heads of expenditure that fall within the line for "Scottish Administration". They imply transfers in and out. There is, for example, a transfer of £199,000 to the Cabinet Office to fund fast-stream recruitment.
I speak from experience when I say that it is not pleasant to watch someone die from that agonising disease. We know that death and disease rates have not yet peaked.
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Date answered:
14 November 2003