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I do not know whether any member of the committee has seen an opinion provided by a constituent? It specifies the date on which the complainant wrote to the professional body and what they said.
That made up the deficit.The conclusion that we reached on that particular date was that the schedule of figures, which showed a deficit of £541,000, could not be reconciled.
Now, we take the full cost of that person's pension, between their early retirement date and the normal retirement date, and charge that to the year when they go.
The result of that process will be presented to the community safety partnership at the earliest possible date. There have been time-scale problems in the CSF—we have dropped behind schedule.
The minister came back to Parliament on 11 May this year and said to Mr Brownlee:"The group expects to submit its report before the summer recess. I will publish the report in due course thereafter."
In the States, spending on research and development does not falter even in recessions; remarkably, it carries on. We are also all aware that the Indian and Chinese economies are growing at 7, 8 or 9 per cent per annum, with the intellectual capital that has been built there.
If we wished to add value to Edinburgh hotels, we would have picked a period in the year in which hotels are looking for business. Given that the Parliament is in recess in July and that members have gone elsewhere, it may come as a shock to some that the city is remarkably busy with visitors then.I move on to the right to protest.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the increase in spending per (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupil has been in each year, compared with the previous year, since 1996-97 to date, broken down by local authority.