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Some of this is not totally clear—there is a question mark next to "developers/development", but you go on to say:"so we briefed Jackie Baillie on that as well".Mr Laurance says:"Sorry, which minister?"
Contaminated Land Clean-up Funding (Glasgow) To ask the Scottish Executive how Glasgow will benefit from its allocation of the funding to clean up contaminated land.
Why is the allocation of the fund rigidly fixed to tonnage targets, rather than the fund recognising that community groups, which provide a range of local benefits, have core costs to which it should contribute?
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 December 2005
Before then, local authorities had considerable flexibility in setting their flood alleviation budget within their overall section 94 consent allocations.
We must remember, however, that the voluntary services are provided with a commitment to deal with the same social consequences that local authorities have to deal with, and that many of them are funded to a large extent through the public purse.