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It concerns two documents on the Lisbon strategy, the first of which deals with the transfer of businesses and the second of which deals with corporate social responsibility, which is an issue that the committee dealt with before I became a member.
Although we did not get as much evidence on this as I would have liked, it was evident to me that where defence expenditure had reduced in Sweden—and expenditure in that area had been very high—the amount of money saved that transferred into the private sector must have been considerable.
During the study, we examined the process through which the Prison Service assessed the prisoners' needs and transferred that information on to an action plan that would refer the prisoner to appropriate courses.
If the two people were in agreement, I am sure that the courts would reflect the wishes of the parties about the transfer and division of property. The issue comes back to the point that I made to Margaret Smith earlier.
People have no commercial alternative to the local authority.Where local authorities are charging more than the cost of recovery and the money is used to supply closed-circuit television cameras for town centres, the local business community might see that as a transparent transfer of profits for a specific reason.
I know that it is early in the morning to discuss such matters, but it astonishes me that I could get permission to do that.There are mountains of regulations on other areas of waste management—transfer notes, regulations on the control of waste and regulations on hazardous waste—but no statutory guidance on this area.
Do you also agree that, once this year's diet is out of the way, it would be to everyone's benefit if there were a reduction in the number and bulk of data transfers in schools and in the SQA? Do you accept that the bulk is, was and will be part of the problem?
Anybody who has been an elected representative in local government will have been frustrated by the time that it takes to make decisions and, when a decision appears to have been taken, how long it takes to transfer that into the public domain. One of the aims of the review is to correct that and at least to make the public more aware.The hardest part of ou...
If there is borrowing, we need to know where it will come from, who accounts for it, who pays it back, whether it is in addition to something else and whether it is a transferred borrowing power. None of that is specified.
It should be about redesign and transfer. We perhaps have to leave the phrase in at the moment, but I make a plea that, in the short and medium term, we seek different terminology that covers re-engineering and redesign.