This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The IT world is increasingly moving to a storage as a service model, which means that every little extra email that you retain and every draft document where you do not think, “I don’t need that and can get rid of it,” although you have the final version, costs money.
We see—and we hope that this comes through in the report—that the extra spending is absolutely down to the choices that have been made by the Scottish Government and, by approving the budget, the Parliament.
More and more library services need extra funding for the basics, which in schools can include stock and furniture, particularly with book budgets being slashed.
From the data that was available to me by the end of the review, which was around June or July this year, the gap between the rest of the UK and Scotland is narrowing, so there is not a huge extra number of applications for ADP in Scotland.
It is about what the processes would be for amendments to NPF4 or local development plans, although there is an extra point about the point at which amendments made to the national planning framework would trigger a full review of the framework.
The idea of improving selectivity was to focus on minimising the stuff that is extra to the targets—being as selective as possible and removing the right fish without touching non-target species.