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However, most of the consideration of the finance plans and service plans that come in is undertaken by officials. Dr Collings will no doubt be able to add some information on how the financial plans are assessed within the department.
It provides assistance for people to start businesses or to grow them and to develop sites and premises for businesses or tourism facilities to attract visitors from outside the region.
There is also an abundance of brownfield sites close at hand that could easily be used by local authorities and developers to satisfy demand for urban housing.
On resuming— I welcome Ross Finnie, the Minister for Environment and Rural Development, and his officials. You will be aware that we have been interrogating the bill for some time now.
Paragraph 536 now notes that there are plenty of cases of civil servants' coming to committees without ministers. Ministers trust officials to deal with subordinate legislation and matters that are largely technical and procedural.
Directions and guidance have been issued and a joint franchising team of Executive and Strathclyde Passenger Transport officials is working to deliver the service specification.
We have much better records for our river systems. We need data from a lot more sites around Scotland on not just sea levels but the things that have a real impact on people—wave heights, storminess and sea surges.