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First, following the conclusion of SR 2002, we received additional resources from the UK Treasury under the landfill tax credit scheme, which amount to more than £9 million for 2004-05 and which will be used to assist with the implementation of our national waste plan.
A balance will always need to be achieved between the rights of the individual on whom an order is imposed and the recognition of how serious crime expresses itself in communities and of how perpetrators evade justice.
We expect them to feed any concerns that they have into the review process and consideration of the sensory impairment action plan.Reference was made to the John Denmark unit and concern was expressed about the future of that in-patient service.
We do not want to say that people will not or cannot express views on reserved matters, but it is not the Scottish Executive's role to have pension policies and there would not be much point in having them because they would not change anything.
I have allowed the clock to run on, but I am afraid that I cannot let it run on any further. I express my regrets to the two members who wished to speak but were unable to.
I recognise the concerns that Mr Ewing has expressed about the selection by Network Rail, but the costs of maintaining rail lines reflect not just their length but their use, which will need to be factored in.
The second principal focus of the rail review is the future of the Strategic Rail Authority; the third is the issue of where safety should go; and the fourth is the notion that there should be a single directing mind for the railways, which is misunderstood in many quarters.I believe—I express no opinion on whether this is right or wrong—that the issue of g...