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The letter that you received from Mary Mulligan, dated 15 March, says:"The project users have all been offered an individual assessment of needs together with alternative support."
I am sorry that Jamie Stone has left the chamber, because I agreed with the points that he and Mary Scanlon made about the cost of fares and the failure of the ABIS.
This would improve the service to road users . . . and ensure that we make more effective use of the existing network." Mary Scanlon (Highlands and Islands) (Con)rose— Mr Lang concluded:"Direct charging would . . . secure the efficiency and value for money that a market approach would bring."
I welcome Sandra White, who is here as a substitute for Tricia Marwick, and Jackie Baillie. Mary Scanlon hopes to arrive shortly; she has a personal engagement and will be slightly late.Item 1 on the agenda is consideration of the Planning etc (Scotland) Bill at stage 1.
We can check what facilities are available for young people and what the community resources in an area are doing.Although, as Mary Scanlon says, we do not have more police officers to devote to this work, we are going to approach the issues differently.
Those who have read in the May-June issue of Roof the article by Mary Taylor—a lecturer in the housing policy and practice unit of Stirling University, and a former adviser to the committee—will note that Angela Eagle, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security, commented at the conference of the Chartered Institute of H...
In particular, I want to place on record the committee's thanks to our clerks, Lee Bridges, Mary Dinsdale and Rodger Evans. I thank the committee's advisers, Sally Haw and Dr Laurence Gruer, who are in the gallery today, for drawing up the report.
The figures in that study are for the period up to 1994. Earlier, Mary Scanlon said that she readily accepts blame for the period 1979 to 1997, when the Conservatives built up child poverty and pensioner poverty.