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We are committed toincreasing nursery entitlement for three and four-year-olds by 50% and to provideaccess to a teacher for every child in pre-school, starting in deprived communities.Initial steps towards achieving these commitments were announced by the CabinetSecretary for Education and Lifelong Learning on 20 June 2007 and we are working with partners i...
This LCM is proposed for the purpose of tidying up housing legislation and repealing what is, in effect, a defunct power that was introduced more than 20 years ago and which reflects pre-devolution ideas about how housing regulation would operate across the UK.As the memorandum explains, the Housing and Regeneration Bill will restructure the provision of ho...
Surely primary legislation would be required to enable the Executive to be referred to as the Scottish Government.I apologise for missing the pre-meeting discussion, but this is a crucial point.
While as a matter of public policy the law sets its face against the imposition of a punishment of one contracting party (the debtor) by another (the creditor) by way of a penalty clause, it is no longer a general pre-condition of a clause’s enforceability that it be a pre-estimate of the financial loss which the cre...
The Scottish Government held a St Andrew''s Day poster competition on the theme of Scotland''s Food and Drink and sent a promotional leaflet to schools, pre-schools, nurseries, playgroups and family centres.