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They tend to say that things are potentially near—its members do not quite see green shoots, but they see the brown earth moving very slightly. I would not wish to put a timeframe on that, but I have spoken privately to people in Homes for Scotland, and they talk about a couple of years.
Would it therefore be fair to say that, if you stripped away the capital reprofiling—ah, I see that Mr Brown is passing you another note; I make that seven so far—and had the increase of 1.7 per cent, we would be describing slower growth rather than a cut to the baseline?
., Powell, R., Kemp, P., Brewer, M., Browne, J., … Joyce, R. (2014). The Impact of Recent Reforms to Local Housing Allowances, Summary of Key Findings.
Draft Budget Scrutiny 2011-12 I welcome colleagues to the Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee’s 32nd meeting in 2010. We have apologies from Gavin Brown, who cannot be with us.We have one item on the agenda, which is to hear from three panels for our scrutiny of the draft budget for 2011-12.
When our universities need to make the big investments that will attract international stars, they are still able to do that.The risk going forward is that, if the Browne review of higher education funding and student finance recommends a significant increase in tuition fees down south, that equation—the balance that currently exists across the border—will ...
If any targeted support is to be given that is outside what we currently see as something that is industry or demand led, we should bear in mind the fact that management skills are certainly transferable, and the capability to engage and grow companies with a modern management and leadership style can be transferred anywhere in the economy. Chris Harvie, Gavin Brown and Stuart McMillan still want to ask questions, but, given that we are running up against the clock, their questions should be brief.
If a company defers its plans, we do not provide the match funding.To help to compensate for that, we are trying to make a better connection between Scottish companies and the research that is coming out of many of our R and D programmes in order to take advantage of and try to get more rapid commercialisation of some of the intellectual property to which I referred in answer to a question from Mr Brown...