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In addition to these meetings, Executive officials have been keeping in regular contact with officials from the National Assembly for Wales on foot-and-mouth disease recovery issues.
Amendment 24, by agreement, withdrawn. Amendments 25 and 26 not moved. Amendment 51, in the name of Maureen Macmillan, is grouped with amendments 52, 1, 53, 2, 3, 27, 4, 54, 81, 82, 13 to 15, 46 and 16.
They will allow the Scottish Parliament, and only the Scottish Parliament, to establish an order to designate specific sites in Scotland on a restricted basis in order, in particular, to ensure the security of our head of state.It is absolutely right and proper that, through the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill and through the decision of the Scottis...
We are considering options for increasing land supply for affordable housing, including strategic land banking and the servicing of sites. There are ways of getting better value for money from public resources, and expanding low-cost home ownership.The Executive agrees that we must facilitate the ability of the ordinary people of Scotland to make decisions ...
However, when they contract with somebody else for the use of their land—whether as a site for a chalet or something else—there should be some framework to protect the person who enters into that contract.
We discussed the possibility of methods that did not go as far as shooting or killing raptors, such as pricking eggs or disrupting nesting sites. Such methods would also require a derogation from the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and Scottish Natural Heritage says that every other possibility would have to be examined before that was done.I want the SG...
The other option to be considered is"methods of pursuing the theme (for example: site visits, commissioned research project, civic participation work, etc.)".Paragraph 9 concerns closer working relations with other committees, communities and institutions:"I recommend that work programme reporters should consider the mechanisms that might be used to enable ...
I notice that the petition says"that there should be no release of GM crops into the Scottish environment".If the test sites have been agreed and the tests are going ahead, perhaps that part of the petition no longer applies.