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The minister will recognise the gravity of the situation, given the fact that 50 per cent of Scotland's sewage sludge, including sewage sludge from my region, the Lothians, is currently burned at Longannet.
Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 (Modification of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978) Order 2006 (draft) No substantive points arise on the draft order.
In the past year, 19 charges under section 76 of the Licensing (Scotland) Act 1976 were reported to the Crown Office—or, rather, to the local procurator fiscal.
Paul Martin is correct to point to the great success of our investment in education in Scotland and our attempts to rectify previous huge underinvestment and the crumbling schools that we inherited the length and breadth of the country.
There is a recognition that the issues that the cross-party group on strategic rail services for Scotland previously dealt with overlapped considerably with issues regarding other forms of transport and the work of another cross-party group.
(S2O-5316) In the past 10 years, the number of firearms offences in Scotland has almost halved. I want that trend to continue, but we are not complacent.
Mr Brocklebank might want to get some change in a treaty somewhere to give more power to the UK and less power to the EU, but we want a reasonable international fisheries policy and we want it to be managed in Scotland with our partners in the North sea and elsewhere.
Rule 2.3.1 of our standing orders states:"In considering dates of any Parliamentary recess, the Parliamentary Bureau shall have regard to the dates when schools in any part of Scotland are to be on holiday."I do not know of any schools in Scotland—certainly not local authority schools—that are on holiday in September...