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In holding its meetings in Alloa, the committee has truly gone out to the people of Clackmannan to hear their views.Paragraph 50 of the committee report states: "the Committee is convinced that the freight/passenger options that would be provided by the S-A-K route could be the catalyst for a major boost to the development of the local economy through attra...
Even today, many Canadians of Scottish descent are prominent in the modern academic world, such as the economist J K Galbraith and the writer Alistair MacLeod.
Section 12(1)(b) will allow local authorities to make byelaws for the purposes in section 6(1)(k), but section 6(1)(k) allows land to be excluded from access rights by byelaws.
It is important that a levy on the credit industry should support the process of recovering the debt. Section 7(2)(k) will give the Scottish Executive the power to make regulations about"the priority in which debts are to be paid under a debt payment programme".That raises the issue of council tax and any other preferred or prior debts and the distinction—i...
For example, we have been working very closely with Scottish Enterprise on the k-web project to find out how we can link its portal—which is mainly for SMEs—to other portals to allow access to information that we have.
One remark has always struck me and brings the issue home: nothing improves well-being as much as undiscovered theft—until the theft is discovered. I believe that J K Galbraith made that remark. There is an element of that when there is not enough local taxation and no matching element.
It is possible that people are being diverted from the effort that they should be putting into commercialisation. Professor C K Prahalad, who is an adviser to the Indian Government on global business strategy, coined the phrase "legacy thinking".
Some 30 members of this Parliament get free prescriptions but people on incapacity benefit do not. J K Rowling, as a new mum, gets free prescriptions, but a low-paid woman worker in the Scottish Parliament must pay in full.