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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-10738 by Peter Peacock on 29 September 2004, how many (a) primary and (b) secondary school classes have 30 or more pupils, broken down by local authority area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 October 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many houses have been (a) built and (b) renovated in each local authority area in the (i) private and (ii) social rented sector in each of the last five years.
Do you agree that there is an urgent requirement to apprise the public at large of the many facets of our hugely expensive legal system, to rectify the public perception that the system seems to be operating mainly for the financial benefit of the legal profession and not for the victims of crime?
We have uncovered what we think is a heavy work load for procurators fiscal in many cases in the summary courts, and we are looking at ways in which that work load can be alleviated.
Rather, it is a way of expressing the fact that some packages come in below estimate, while others come in above estimate. I do not think that many packages come in below estimate.
I have looked at the figures at the back of that letter and, given the committee's steer, I have tried to focus on the real-terms figures, which are, in many ways, more helpful than the cash figures.
If it could do so, that is even more reason to consider it.We are interested in the Transport and Works (Scotland) Bill because many of the issues in private transport bills take a huge amount of parliamentary time to discuss.