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The joint planning structure provides the voluntary sector with a forum that we have helped to develop over the past few years. The sector is involved in all planning processes and we have funded a development worker post to assist it to engage further in policy and the development of the joint planning structure.
There must be incentives in the contract that will allow new ideas on flexibility and route development to be implemented over the lifetime of the contract.
My officials are currently discussing with representatives of the Scottish Asylum Seekers Consortium how such integrated packages might best be developed and resourced, using various streams of Executive funding in flexible ways.
The key point is that all the tender plans say is that any successful bidder must provide an actuarially equivalent pension fund. The current pension fund is in deficit, so the obligation on the successful company will be to provide a pension fund that is in deficit.
One of those groupings is Lothian Buses.The funding of the operations of TEL is, essentially, part of the funding of the development of the tram, as the purpose of TEL is to establish an integrated tram system.