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Our intention is to meet Mr Allan occasionally, if and when required, so that we can keep abreast of developments. We hope that he will have success in, and enjoy, his new post.Item 1 is a decision on whether to take in private items 2 and 3.
Is he aware that shareholders in that project are close to deadlocking it legally, thereby scuppering the development, 3,500 homes, 12,000 jobs and an investment of £1.2 billion from the private sector?
On the first instrument that we considered—the draft Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board Order 2007—our ground for reporting the order will not be the validity of the order but the fact that there appears to be an unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the parent statute.
I have a suggestion for a third bullet point in paragraph 14: we should find out whether there have been further developments on the possible employment of asylum seekers.
As the clerk's paper says, we agreed to ask whether the Scottish Government plans to develop the previous Executive's commitments following its response to the session 2 Finance Committee's inquiry into deprivation spending and, if so, what progress has been made.Members have a copy of Mr Swinney's response and a copy of my original letter.
At present, we do not have a commitment in the bill to an early hearing, and it is not clear whether the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has received the additional funding that would help to improve the system.
This power, as the DPM explained, allows for flexibility in ensuring the description of such persons or organisations can be efficiently amended should this be required.
Higher Education (HE) Discretionary Funds HE Discretionary Funds are provided to higher and further education institutions and consist of: the Higher Education Childcare Fund the Undergraduate Discretionary Fund the Postgraduate Discretionary Fund the new Part-time Fund.
There is also the understanding that the cabinet secretary is to announce significant additional funding for community sentences. It would be helpful to know to what extent they can be funded from the savings.