This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Any local authority not intending to agree the offer, and associated terms, must notify the Scottish Government by 18 January 2019. This is also the date by which any discrepancies identified by local authorities or COSLA should be raised with the Scottish Government.
Party business managers can often get advance notice of when their slot is likely to come. Committee dates are known in advance. Information is usually given when it is specifically requested.
A letter from the Minister for Justice, Mr Jim Wallace, dated October 2002, is relevant in this regard, but it did not clarify for me points that the committee raised in the report.
Unless we have a planning system that is more responsive in its ability to keep development plans up to date, we will not be well served. That is a big focus of attention for the planning bill.
You mentioned several times that the new unified board was established only on 1 October 2001. On almost exactly the same date, the decision was taken to set up the pan-Lothian review group.