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However, if you wish to answer, please do.15:00 I am more than happy to take the question. Our report is four years out of date and was produced for the previous Administration.
Our working assumption has been that we would be required to hold a map-based register, and our base map would be a current, up-to-date version of the Ordnance Survey map.
We have a huge number of laboratory information systems, and, as boards replace out-of-date systems, we are converging towards unanimity throughout Scotland.
Let us cast forward four years to the end of the present session of Parliament or to 2050—the climate change bill aims at that date—and imagine looking at a graph that quantified those four factors over that time.
I have worked on food policy in 20 to 30 countries around the world with people in organisations such as the United Nations, the World Bank and the European Community. What I want members to take away is the fact that one of the official publications that I have seen on food policy in Scotland ranks with the worst document on food policy that I have seen an...
Members are well aware of the problems of ill-considered regulation and the approach that was adopted to the regulation of the banks, which has had the most appalling consequences.
I have given a clear commitment to the independence of the report, but I have no difficulty in supporting amendments 36 and 41 and I encourage the committee to agree to them.Although I am sympathetic to amendment 35, the appointment date that he specifies is too restrictive.
We are discussing with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities the arrangements for and principles of the allocation of that funding, but I am happy to bring the committee up to date with current thinking.I will also be pleased to discuss regulation since the abolition of Communities Scotland.
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19 January 2009
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