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I have had no report of problems in the liquidation or winding up of limited companies and therefore, if amendment 92 were to be disagreed to, as I hope it will be, I expect no timescale problems in devolved insolvencies.I believe that Scottish practitioners will respond to projected competition in the way that we expect by offering a better and even more p...
The £83,000 subsidy was paid to HAD Coaches, which with no prior warning went into liquidation on 5 March 2004. Today's committee meeting should not be a battle between the CPT and SPT.
A new station has been promised, but Railtrack went into liquidation and we are still waiting for the work to be done.For many years, in the face of opposition from Fife Council, I have campaigned for the reopening of the Leven to Thornton line.
If someone decides to go to Luton, then beyond, they have to buy two different tickets. If your first flight is late and you miss your next flight, you can lose your money.
The council was holding out to be able to keep the expenditure in the capital account, probably because that would have helped its overall balance sheet at the end of the year. The auditors maintained that they would have to qualify the accounts, and the spend was changed to revenue expenditure.You will probably get a more appropriate answer from my colleag...
That is not true of all of the Borders; I guess that the southern Borders area does not relate to Edinburgh to the same extent.This is the first time that we have drawn up the national planning framework. We started with a blank sheet of paper and we had to try to articulate where Scotland was going and what choices Scotland faced.
You do not need to start with a blank sheet of paper; the information is available.Although process objectives are important for reasons of efficiency and for other reasons, we believe that the move towards more outcome-based budgeting will help the process of considering equality and gender issues.
It also mentions that the awards are "conditional on the projects being ‘off balance sheet' and on contracts being signed by 31 March 2002".What exceptions are there to that deadline?
One of the points to emerge is that voluntary organisations can be disadvantaged in trying to access longer-term, more sustainable funding by being unable to build up a track record or a sound balance sheet with which they can go to a funder—perhaps a commercial bank or an intermediate fund—and say that they are, within certain terms, commercially sustainab...