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Does John Pentland not think that a great drain on resources for local councils, particularly in his area and Glasgow, is the fact that big companies are allowed to buy up land and have land banks? If my memory serves me right, that came from a Labour Government in Westminster.
Our work in Qatar is a classic example of that. Qatar has the world cup in 2022, but it does not really have a sewerage system, as you and I know, so we are helping to design one.
The holidays on 3 and 4 June are bankholidays - the former is to mark the Queen's Golden Jubilee, and the latter is the spring bankholiday which, this year has been moved from 27 May.
They planned a campaign to encourage donations to the local food bank. One girl even told me that she knew how important food banks were because her family had had to use the food bank in the past.
I have never worked for Standard Life, but I have worked for similar companies: Lloyds TSB, Scottish Widows, State Street Bank and Trust Company, JP Morgan and Chase Manhattan, as it was before.
It is incomprehensible to me that further education is defined as private whereas the staff in the two major banks that we rescued are now defined as public service employees.
There is concern that the proposals could further destabilise economic recovery. Bank finance is still an issue, with potential pressure on property owners if they have to pay higher non-domestic rates without new rental income.