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Frankly, I think that they are wrong.Before I ask Nicol Stephen to come in, will you clarify something for me? George Foulkes mentioned the date of 30 May. That was the date of the television interview.
As I said in my supplementary evidence, you could create a completely different way of administering the whole system around the register, but the prerequisite is to have a good up-to-date map-based register, which we have never had.
I suppose we could have required all authorities to resolve equal pay and single status claims by a certain date, but we did not. I cannot tell local authorities that they have a duty to do that by a certain date if they have not agreed to that.
A strong suggestion has been made that we should, at an early date, take up the matter with the various agencies that are involved and, in particular, with the Scottish Government.
To an extent, it is fair to say that we have not done that on the basis of good evidence to date, but we need to do it. Mary Scanlon has the next question.
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Date answered:
25 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-37637 by Kenny MacAskill on 2 December 2010, whether there has been a change to the mid-2013 target date for the Gartcosh crime campus to be fully operational.
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Date answered:
29 April 2010
To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers met Scottish Enterprise to discuss the proposed Islamic Expo and, if so, on what dates, broken down by ministers and officials involved.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 September 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times since May 2007 its officials have held meetings with government ministers from other countries, broken down by country and date of meeting, also showing a summary of the topics of discussions.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-12321 by Stewart Stevenson on 2 May 2008, on what date JST Services withdrew its application for Freight Facilities Grant. 2 November 2007.