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It is possible to get extra time without there being provision in standing orders.However, standing orders should be amended on the timescales between each stage.
Experience from other countries has also shown that, where deer densities are held at lower levels, foresters are able to regenerate woodland naturally, without the substantial extra cost of fencing and replanting.
Continuity of funding and confidence is essential. We welcome the extra funding, but no one should forget that countries such as Denmark and Finland allocate far more public funding to their theatre than this country does.
No matter how we had handled the debate, there is no way that we could have shoehorned in an extra seven members. I am sympathetic to John Swinburne's attempt to bring the issues associated with older people to the chamber.
However, when it came to the hard question about how much extra the Opposition parties were willing to put on the table to soften the blow to business, there was a deafening silence.
I worried about the potential for political manoeuvring and unreasonable demands for extra money. I worried about Gaelic signs sprouting up all over the country in places where no Gaelic has ever been spoken and about councils having to take on extra staff.At that point, the principle bothered me because of the way t...
Businesses that needed support will have gone to the wall. I welcome the extra £50 million in support that Liberal Democrat ministers in the Executive have secured for the fishing industry.
The impediment to tourism at Inverness airport that results from the extra tariffs that are required for traffic that passes through it can be compared to the PFI that was used in building the Skye bridge, which caused an impediment to tourism through tariffs for using the bridge.