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I hope that he will clarify some of the points that have been raised so that there is no muddying of the waters at a later date. If I get those comforting words, I shall withdraw the amendment.
The electoral registers are always shockingly out of date. People underestimate the fact that, particularly in poorer areas with a high turnover of population, electoral registers can be 10 or 20 years out of date.
Ultimately, there has to be a balance between fish farm operators having some form of land bank that allows them to expand or contract production depending on the market, and other people who want to enter the market or expand production being treated fairly.
In addition, recent surveys by the Royal Bank of Scotland, Scottish Engineering and the Confederation of British Industry indicate improved performance by and prospects for our manufacturers.Our initial indications are that Scottish Enterprise will achieve all the priority measures that are set out in our operating plan for the year 2005-06.
Over and above that, measures that will directly benefit rural areas include the setting of a benchmark in new planning advice for 25 per cent of all new housing developments to be affordable homes; new land supply through the preferential release of surplus forestry land for affordable housing; support funding for an innovative £10 million land banking sch...
The report shows a decline in the 30 years between 1960 and 1990 in the number of shops, sub-post offices, primary schools, doctors' surgeries, banks, pubs and hotels in rural areas.
The meetings that I attended yesterday and last week indicated that we will have to continue to examine that fraught issue. Members know that some banks now believe that there is a title attachment to quotas and are trying to exercise that, notwithstanding the fact that it is very difficult for them to prove that they have it.
A licensing scheme for the use of dogs would not require that level of bureaucracy, because people will not kill someone or hold up a bank with a pack of dogs. Issuing a licence for the use of dogs would require a different procedure from that for issuing a gun licence.I suggest that an authority should be established to which a person's need to keep animal...
That proves that Mr Byers would accept another private company, perhaps even a German bank, buying Railtrack's assets. It is absurd that we should allow the problems of the past to continue.
Have you discussed assurances in respect of business failure with the Executive or the banking sector? In such circumstances, great care would have to be taken with the agreement, to define and limit the risks.