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There are also problems to do with attempts to achieve some of the targets that the Government has set. For example, one target is to"Transfer a further 2 million lorry miles per year from road to rail or water",but there is little evidence of practical steps' being taken to make that come about.
For example, I learned that, in 1814, Norway transferred from Danish to Swedish possession, and that, in the post-Napoleonic war period, Sweden wanted Finland instead of Norway.I regret to say that I have never visited Scandinavia.
The debates ensure that we can bring before the Parliament not only constituents' issues, but issues that transfer across geographical boundaries in Scotland and elsewhere.
In fact, our 2001 Westminster manifesto said:"We will transfer the judicial functions currently undertaken by the House of Lords to a new Supreme Court."
Two other measures—SEEKIT, which is the Scottish Executive expertise, knowledge and information transfer, and SCoRe, which is the small and medium-sized enterprises collaborative research programme Did you say "SEEKIT" or "sleekit", minister?
Many of the skills and techniques are highly transferable. The heavy engineering that was used to build and fit drilling rigs and production platforms could readily be turned to the manufacture of offshore wind, wave and tidal power devices and infrastructure.
The SWSI recommends that the council should: review all cases involving vulnerable adults; comply with the Scottish Social Services Council codes of practice; improve training for mental health officers; develop better risk assessment methods; improve case recording and review mechanisms; introduce random case monitoring processes; reform case transfer arra...
That has happened with, for example, school asset plans and the transfer of council housing, in which authorities have been able to do something because they worked out a business plan.Our point is that we need to do the same for roads.
Examples of that are voter awareness campaigns on the introduction of the single transferable vote and the setting up of the Scottish local authorities remuneration committee.We wrote to the committee before Christmas, with an indication of the costs to the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland of carrying out the necessary ward boundary review....