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Fees and charges, facility hire, sales of goods, online sales, contracting with third parties, partnerships and contracts with health and external funding from charities have all gone up.
That could play out in relation not just to people who make a living or sell things online but in relation to being able to connect with town-twinning associations, talk by email and do all the things that we can now do.
We seek to improve the figure annually. Ideally, we would like an online salmon and sea trout catch repository, so that proprietors could submit catch information online.
Specifically, we will ask about the GP uptake of the online programme as well as the role of the specialist nurses and whether there is a sufficient number of them.
In the next month or so, the programme group will look at how local authorities can also be involved in contributing to that single online point of entry, which I think is really important. 11:15 That work has a very short timescale.
I hope that the introduction of an online registration process will prove to be equally popular when it comes into effect—subject, of course, to the committee’s approval.
Related to that is the question of technology and the administration of whatever online procedures are made available. I do not know what the risk is of those being abused.
What came across when we met a group of teachers, as well as in some of the responses to the committee’s online survey, is that communication—that was a big issue at last week’s meeting—seems to be an issue.
If the 1,090 near-identical responses received via the Friends of the Earth and Scottish Green Party online tools – all of which were supportive – are included, 1,981 respondents (81%) supported the proposal, while 435 (18%) opposed it.