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Frankly, we are not prepared to do that because the indication that the First Minister gave at question time on 7 September, in response to a question from David McLetchie, was that those statutory powers would, in all likelihood, be diminished.
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.
I regret very much that the moderate voice of Cardinal Hume is no longer to be heard to guide us" — Official Report, House of Lords, 7 Feb 2000; Vol 609, c 403. Lord St John's words certainly echo strongly with me.
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.