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As far as Baroness Greenfield, the chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, is concerned, that is on the Scottish universities' agenda.Members may well have in their wallets the Bank of Scotland £20 note, which is regrettably being phased out.
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...
As time has gone on, property developers in those areas have disposed of their land banks in flood plain areas, so there has been less and less pressure on councils to allow properties to be built on flood plains.
We are doing a bit of work with the local authority chief executives. To date, we have unearthed 117 benchmarking frameworks that are being used by more than half a dozen councils.
I set that alongside my earlier comments about the consultation that has been done and the feeling that there has been to date between the community and Transport Scotland.
The Committee also recognises that the evidence base for this proposal is at an early stage and that the international evidence to date is inconclusive."The Government proposes to ban visual displays in the hope that doing so will produce an evidence base in support of its argument that such a measure will reduce smoking.
The Health and Sport Committee recognised in its report"that the evidence base for this proposal is at an early stage and that the international evidence to date is inconclusive"and noted that the minister said that the ban would lead to more evidence—in other words, "We have no evidence to say that the ban will stop young smokers, but we will give it a try...
A risk always existed that if a planning regime was superimposed at a later date, Scotland's absolute right to control its sea fisheries could be totally disrupted.