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We reviewed those options in June, and have been developing and discussing a number of them with the corporate body during the summer recess. That process is continuing and we expect to reach a conclusion to enable us to set out a detailed budget for 2011-12 in early November, together with a clear approach to meeting the required savings in the years beyon...
Let me say, before I conclude the public part of the meeting, that I hope that everyone has an enjoyable, if all-too-brief, summer recess. I am sure that you will all be working very hard, as I will be and certainly as SPICe and the clerks will be after the work that we have given them today.
I am sure that everyone here agrees with that sentiment.Unlike the Scottish Parliament, the children's hearings system does not go into recess in the summer months. Hearings take place every working day.
I guess that today's meeting arose from a conversation that I had with the committee's previous convener just before the recess—he wanted us to speak to the committee after we issued our report.
It is difficult for us to do that without hearing from the Government whether it plans to bring forward a legislative programme and what that programme might include.We should create space on next week's committee meeting agenda for the cabinet secretary to attend, so that the Executive may outline before the recess the Government's priorities and plans.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 January 2009
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-16514 by Stewart Maxwell on 6 October 2008, whether it will list the amounts allocated to housing associations for home adaptations for disabled people in (a) 2006-07, (b) 2007-08 and (c) 2008 to date, broken down by housing association.
The number of visits to VisitScotland’s consumer website, www.visitscotland.com, for 2010-11, 2011-12 and year-to-date (YTD) for 2012, broken down by country of origin and arranged in descending order, are shown in the following table.
Ian Wood complains that DECC has failed to provide a proper regulatory regime that is up to date with current practice; that fiscal policy has been inconsistent and has strangled the industry, creating uncertainty and deterring investment; that DECC has failed to talk to Treasury colleagues; and that regulation and taxation have often worked at cross purpos...