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Hence, we have introduced web-based applications and gateway measures to ensure that applications are submitted correctly.Of the 1,600 or so applications that have been made to date, all have been submitted timeously.
Once the Home Office consultation is completed, we will be in a stronger position and better able to say yea or nay as to whether further action is required. Do we know the final date for the Home Office consultation?
If we take the steps that are outlined in the first two options, it would provide some information for our successor committee, which would probably save time when the petition is considered at a later date. We should continue to pursue this petition or encourage other people to do so.
The first concerned the Executive's myth about a determined commitment to share power with local authorities, which contrasts with the reality of its actions to date. The Executive deprived Scotland's councils of their full representation on Europe's regional body.
After:"In particular to report on the implications for the Scottish Executive's expenditure proposals of any revised cost estimate or revised date for completion of works",I would add:"and to consider the structure of the financing of the project."
—Official Report, Standards Committee, 27 October 1999; c 193.There is no evidence, of any description, that the date was confirmed by Jack McConnell.
There seems to be no logical justification for the proposition that the regulations, which are a mirror of those that will apply in England, need to be introduced on the same date. I thought we were supposed to have devolution—or perhaps I imagined it.