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They are not defined—I am sure that the assessors will advise on this—in valuation law. Hidden codes are there, however, and I think that they could be used.
Of that total, some 80 per cent goes to the Treasury in duty and VAT receipts. Tobacco is a legal product, and we take the view that smoking is a matter of informed adult choice.
Normally, in criminal trials, particularly those in which the accused is in receipt of legal aid, there is no question of an award of expenses against either party.
On joined-up thinking, given that she is keen on exercising the Parliament's existing powers rather than acquiring any more, does Johann Lamont agree that it would be a good move for the Scottish Executive to remove the 75 per cent clawback in housing capital receipts that is preventing local authorities from investing adequately in the public housing stock...
It comes from the fact that the plan to rebuild Gartnavel royal hospital involves selling a big bit of the land at Gartnavel and turning that capital receipt into a new hospital. Gartnavel is a Victorian hospital.
The sheriff commented that there was not simply a therapeutic delay in the receipt by Mr Ruddle of specific focus psychological treatment, but that, in fact, treatment was never made available to him, nor was it available.
My element of the work is to take the run times that others have worked up and feed them into the model. They are then coded up within the model, so that it knows how long a tram would take to go around line 1.
One of the flaws of the homelessness legislation with which we have been working for years is that it is all about gate keeping. Even with an act and a code of guidance, there is still much scope for discretion, particularly in relation to people who may have been made homeless from friends' or relatives' homes.
Amendment 48 aims to catch someone who is seeking to buy the sexual services of a child for someone else and to ensure that, notwithstanding the fact that it may be possible to catch them elsewhere in the legal code, the offences prescribed in the bill are applicable to a third person who buys sexual services on behalf of someone else.