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I hope that that will be considered by the UK Government in its pre-budget statement.There has been an outbreak of consensus among members today and support throughout Parliament for Labour's motion.
The Tories are still stuck in cautious, pre-recession mode and are paying a political price in the polls for having nothing to say about cutting taxes.
Even now, there are shortages of primary teachers in some local authority areas, where local authorities have recently had to look for teachers overseas. That is why some pre-probationers are paid a £6,000 bounty to train wherever they are needed.
It is also a matter of enabling local councillors to get involved at a much earlier stage in the planning system—at the pre-application stage. Those are among the reforms that are being made in the planning system.
What is the possibility of getting planners, SDI and Scottish Enterprise to work together on the pre-approval stage, so that we know where we are going and what we want from planning?
The housing budget will be cut by 6 per cent in real terms in year one, before recovering in later years.The SNP is clearly looking to abandon its pre-election pledge to give first-time buyers a £2,000 grant to buy their home.
However, what would be intolerable would be to impose further burdens on the most vulnerable part of the voluntary sector just as it will be threatened by service investment cuts following the pressures of the council tax freeze.There was a sense in the pre-debate arguments that members were coming together on the issue.
You are right—that is a rich source, certainly for researchers, because we can pre-identify certain groups, and speak to the people who expressed certain views and uncover a bit more about those views.
We will work towards ensuring access to a teacher for every pre-school child.In partnership with Scotland's local authorities, I am delighted to announce that we will move as quickly as is possible to reduce class sizes in primary 1 to primary 3 to a maximum of 18—just as we promised we would do.
Social landlords have been subject to pre-action requirements since 2012. Emergency coronavirus legislation introduced pre-action requirements for private landlords on a temporary basis.