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Between now and when we write to the committee we will perform some investigations. That deals with part 7 of the bill. Part 8 deals with evidential, jurisdictional and procedural matters.
Slopping out will probably take up about three hours of a member of staff's time every day, between a quarter to 7 in the morning and approximately half-past 9 at night.
The board's scrutiny functions will be somewhat similar to those that are currently exercised by the independent Statistics Commission, which will cease to exist once the bill is passed. It is proposed that we buy into the bill's scrutiny and standards elements.The bill's provisions will apply to all official statistics that are produced by the Scottish Exe...
The commissioner, using his budget, would probably buy in some research from university research departments and units; he would not necessarily do it all himself.
Ewan Aitken, from Edinburgh, could go to Polwarth, knock on the door of the Edinburgh Rudolf Steiner School and say, "Let's talk and do a deal. We'll buy places and put Edinburgh schoolchildren into the Steiner school."
Housing availability is also an issue, although it is clear that some manufacturers are solving that problem by buying housing and hotels to provide accommodation.There are financial constraints on local government, particularly on the local authority's flood fund.
I am not sure to what the "Other" line refers, but £178,000 will not buy much support. We are talking about using the larger grants scheme to facilitate that.
That idea is just as likely to create tensions and do damage.The savings that work in modern organisations are those that get the full buy-in of all the people involved and that result in re-engineered approaches to the delivery of services.