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Local authorities are best placed to identify problems because of their role in securing accommodation.I suspect that the minister will say that housing officials are not best placed to offer support.
If we were faced with absolute non co-operation from a board, it would be necessary to take pretty drastic action. Did your officials investigate the board during the downturn—shall we say—in the college's performance, so that a decision or advice might be given to the minister?
Those who have not worked in a controlled area and have taken on fees-only students, despite the fact that that might not be official policy, would be rewarded for having all those students and would be paid accordingly.It struck me that one of the other submissions—I think that it was the submission from the Educational Institute of Scotland— I am sorry, M...
As members will know, there is a complex link through ourselves, the Scottish Executive and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions to the UK permanent representation. That is the official line because, of course, the UK is the member state.
Unlike football, we do not kick off; we throw up—that is the official title. My recollection of football games was that throwing up usually happened at 3 o'clock on a Sunday morning after the game.Shinty is a unique game, which is strong in the Highlands.
That is why we recommended that senior local authority officials should take some responsibility and be accountable.On the question of unique gender issues, we admit that in only very few places did we see many young women.
As I said, we are engaged in initial discussions with the Scottish Executive and DSS officials. The big practical issue is that, as you said, something like two thirds of all tenants in public sector houses—owned by Scottish Homes and the local authorities—are on housing benefit.
Amendments 182 and 183 seek to do that by providing that access rights can be exercised on launching sites, groynes, weirs, boulder weirs, embankments of canalised waterways and on anything that is designed to facilitate passage.