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It is the final batch before the summer recess, with a further batch expected in early autumn.I am pleased to welcome a regular visitor to the committee, Mr Andrew Mott.
We have to balance priorities and the funding that is available. Because of the recession, there has been a great deal of concentration on young people.
NPF3 gives us that opportunity, but it has to be more about outcomes and where growth is achievable.At present, we are in a recession so house builders are finding it difficult to take housing forward, but there is a pent-up demand for house building and new homes.
What the living wage can bring to a council’s recruitment differs quite a lot from one council area to another.Clearly, we are all implementing this at a time of major recession in the country. People see local authorities as good employers.
That is the first of the responses to the FOI requests.That note was dated 20 July but there is another piece of correspondence dated 4 August from Norman Macleod, Historic Scotland’s solicitor, to Dorothy Hoskins.
If we do not have supplementary defence statements, how do we ensure that the procurator fiscal and the Crown are up to date? A defence position can change during the course of a prosecution.
The petition has been in front of us previously and we have not had a full response to all our points, so I think that members will want to continue our consideration of it. In a letter dated 16 November, the petitioner raises some specific issues.