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Those involved could probably receive the service more cheaply, but the charge must reflect the council tax band. We would follow the same practice. If a charge for using pipes reflects the real cost, there is no great advantage.
That is a grave problem, and I do not think that the restoration of business rates is the route to follow. Business rates place an undue burden on small companies and, in a way, raising them could be seen as regressive, given that so many of the people who are affected by them are at the lower end of the business scale.
That is not just a case of alternative formats; it means using language that people who may not have a higher education can follow—words which people understand—and it means expressing concepts clearly and succinctly.Promoting change is a large part of our brief, and we need to present two arguments.
The problem is that there are widely differing interpretations of the current law, or rather ways in which it is carried out in practice. Following the Law hospital case, the Lord Advocate stated that he would not authorise prosecutions of qualified medical practitioners who, acting in good faith and with the authority of the Court of Session, withdraw life...
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Date answered:
12 March 2007
The information requested ispresented in the following tables.(a) Alcohol-Related Deaths1 by ParliamentaryConstituency, 2001-05 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 Scotland 1,398 1,487 1,525 1,478 1,513 Aberdeen Central 24 19 13 14 23 Aberdeen No...
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Date answered:
15 January 2007
Her response is as follows:Information on spend is not held centrally by Scottish Parliamentary constituency and held by postcode area onlyfor the Central Heating and Warm Deal programmes.The available information onspend by local authority area is shown in the following tables.Affordable Housing InvestmentProgramme 2001-02 (£ Million) ...
To ask the Scottish Executive how much, and by what percentage, each NHS board budget increased in each of the last five years (a) in total and (b) per capita and what the cumulative increase was over this period. Details are as follows: NHS Board 2000-01 Total Budget Increase (£000) 2000-01 Total Budget Increase (%) ...
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Date answered:
9 February 2005
Figures for Aberdeenshire, Shetland and West Lothian are estimates based on incomplete returns from March 2004.4. Following housing stock transfers, figures for Dumfries and Galloway, Glasgow and Scottish Borders are not included.5.