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I hope that members will bear with me, as we have probably overindulged in detail on the website, but it is worth examining for its up-to-date information about what is happening.
Global solidarity is needed on climate change, which is the defining challenge of our era. Mr Ban argues that if banks are too big to fail, so is the climate.
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.
I have in my book entitled “The Fiscal Crisis of the United Kingdom”, to which I referred in my written evidence, a five-years-out-of-date answer to the first question. The book includes a table of bond yields for the Canadian provinces as of when the book was published.
It is nice to see you here this afternoon.We need some further information on the contents and likely publication date of the MACS staff training guide for transport operators.
We did not look at the other piece of capital, which is the huge maintenance spending that is required in Scotland because we have many older schools, hospitals and so on, all of which require capital spending to keep them up to date. Government needs to make a lot of decisions in the area to determine the best way forward.