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Obviously, I meant to say that it was a rhetorical question.Why should England and Wales, or the rest of the UK, which is our biggest market, buy from Scotland, with all the disadvantages of transmission loss that would ensue?
Now that SNH is coming to Inverness in its entirety—apart from the U-turn whereby around 50 jobs will stay in Edinburgh, as was announced just after the election—of course I support more jobs coming to my constituency, although there is an argument to be had about whether £45 million could be used more effectively in Inverness, such as by buying out the pub...
Those incentive payments—£300 for an ADSL land link and up to £1,200 for a satellite connection—are available within the Scottish Enterprise area. Resources are also going into a buying-club scheme, because we have discovered that businesses sometimes hold back if they think that they will not get broadband in their area—however, if a number of businesses h...
Like consumers, large companies regularly buy on price and we should not be fooled into thinking that they will suddenly choose suppliers simply because those suppliers have soft, cuddly elements in their business practice.
Like consumers, large companies regularly buy on price and we should not be fooled into thinking that they will suddenly choose suppliers simply because those suppliers have soft, cuddly elements in their business practice.
The people who had been consulted did not take the matter on board; they were considering their work specifically and did not see equalities as a matter for them.That occurs across the board, time and again, in any organisation. The buy-in to equalities can be achieved only when every person who is associated with that organisation recognises that the servi...
That might be the case if there is some in-house training, but the buying-in of training provision might not have been considered in the financial memorandum.
Such letters of comfort have become commonplace in the house-buying process and they give the buyer some reassurance that no enforcement action will be taken in relation to unauthorised work that has been carried out on a building.
It has been suggested that there will be a strong move towards buying scallop entitlement and increasing its cost, thus requiring greater effort to repay the investment.