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I hope that OSCR will ensure that appropriate inquiries can be made into such matters in future, and I offer amendment 26 to the Parliament as a way to ensure that that can happen.I move amendment 26.
They enable the public and the commercial community to see that people have gone through the process of bankruptcy and have emerged either as a vanilla-flavoured bankrupt or as someone with a strawberry-flavoured bankruptcy restrictions order, which means that they are different in some way.We make the relevant information freely available on our website, s...
That is obviously the paramount consideration, but the other side of the coin is that, by taking account of those considerations, the other person could perhaps get away with breaking contact orders for ever.
A number of the jobs that are coming into Leith have been described as being for IT, website and media folk. That is great, but not many of the people in the area that NEAR covers have the skills to access those jobs.Two pieces of work need to be done.
PR can certainly enhance the quality of the democratic process, but only if the electorate plays its part by using the single transferable vote system. People will do that only if they believe that their votes will make a difference to the services and charges that are operated by local councils.
What is the average cost of rental of an allotment in Glasgow? The rental for a plot is £26 a year. Have you calculated how high the subsidy is for allotments, bearing in mind costs such as service charges and vandalism?
Because amendment S1M-1355.3 has been agreed to, amendment S1M-1355.1, in the name of Bill Aitken, falls.The sixth question is, that motion S1M-1355, in the name of Fiona Hyslop, on housing stock transfer, as amended, be agreed to. Are we agreed?
One always hears talk of the obstacles to technology transfer or commercialisation, some of which do not lend themselves to a quick fix, but are buried in established cultures and ways of operating, in the university sector and outwith it.
It is now some five years since Audit Scotland was created and our work now covers more than 200 public bodies in Scotland and spending of more than £26 billion a year. We recently published Audit Scotland's annual report and the corporate plan looking forward—one of today's committee papers summarises the main elements of our work over the past year and co...
I would like to quote briefly from a letter of 26 August 2002, when John McAllion, who previously convened the cross-party group on ME, wrote to Malcolm Chisholm, then the Minister for Health and Community Care, to ask whether a Scottish needs assessment programme would be considered by the short-life action group.