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To ask the Scottish Executive whether community and voluntary organisations in Scotland will receive the same level of funding from the Big Lottery Fund as they received from the New Opportunities Fund and Community Fund combined.
Suffice to say their help has been invaluable throughout the process. Thanks are due to Unison for funding a piece of research and to Kay Sillars for producing it.
I am sure that the legal adviser considered this, but the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 removed from Scots law Crown immunity from planning controls for development. The Parliament agreed to a Sewel motion on the matter.
Then there is the question of the methods employed by the SCRO compared with those used in other developed countries. There is also the question of the changes that have been made since 2000.
I was interested to note that the Association of Independent Law Accountants is now working with the fifth or sixth draft of the table of fees, which suggests that developments remain rather fluid.In my view, we need time to consider the issue in detail.