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It contains guidance on information and publicity of road works and advocates the use of information boards, which can include a likely completion date, on site both prior to and during road maintenance projects.
It contains guidance on information and publicity of road works and advocates the use of information boards, which can include a likely completion date, on site both prior to and during road maintenance projects.
However—it is a rather big however—we highlighted significant challenges that councils face as a result of the recession and in making partnership working achieve its full potential.
As you would expect, the most common in the recession was a cost-cutting mentality—which chimes with the evidence that Professor Warhurst gave—because employers are in survival mode.
I think that there ought to be some tax available to the UK Government that is progressive, not regressive. In this recession, I would not have put up VAT; I would have put something extra on income tax, because that would have hit the poorer people less hard.
On a later occasion, when I worked in Livingston during the previous recession, when youth unemployment was high, Ferranti suddenly took on 100 apprentices and my higher physics class disappeared in its entirety.
I intend to consider the report in detail over the coming weeks and to publish a formal response before the summer recess, at the end of June.As I have said before, protecting the public will always be my top priority.
I am not sure that you can extrapolate from past figures the likely demand for services. In any case, with recession, higher unemployment and economic difficulty there will be exacerbated social problems, which will be reflected by demands on the justice system.
Paul Martin spoke for me when he offered that Labour Party members would work through the recess to address the issue with urgency, and I am disappointed that the Government has turned that offer down.