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The committee of conveners is also making representations on the timetabling of SSIs, on explanatory notes for SSIs and on committees' need from time to time for officials to answer technical questions about the instruments.
As the Enterprise and Culture Committee reported last month, Scotland lags behind its UK and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development country competitors when its economic performance is measured against a number of key factors.The Executive's figures on business start-ups show that, with a VAT registration rate that was 26 per cent below the ...
The Communities Committee raised the issue in its meeting of 26 May and ministers have agreed to write to that committee to set out the proposed timetable for the publication of guidance on each part of the bill.
Before I conclude today's business, I express my sincere thanks to all the parliamentary staff who reacted to this afternoon's circumstances with great efficiency and professionalism. Meeting closed at 18:26.
Such is the disgust of many of the island authorities served by Inverness airport that Shetland Islands Council, which has bought a 26 per cent share in a shipping line, has put forward a case to run and manage Sumburgh airport in Shetland.
The major decreases are in expenditure on communities programmes, down £35 million in real terms—I will come back to that—and in the unallocated capital modernisation fund, down £26 million in real terms. However, all is not as it seems.
We undertook a detailed review of quality, patient satisfaction and cost and management of the catering service at 41 hospitals in 26 national health service bodies. The review covered about 50 per cent of staffed beds.
It also states that:
“Should any executive competence look to be exercised by the Secretary of State, we would first look to follow the established patterns of collaboration that produced the current Bill’s provisions, which were only agreed after many months of detailed work between officials, ensuring they were sufficient to garner the support of both gov...