There are 316 results relating to "mega"
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Official Report
Meeting date:
30 January 2003
Plenary, 30 Jan 2003
As Robert Brown and others indicated, the proposals would undermine the principle of local accountability and local democracy, by breaking the crucial link between local electors, councils and services.The service tax would mean potentially significant increases in bills not just for the mega-rich to whom Tommy Sheridan refers, but for people on average inc...
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 January 2002
Plenary, 24 Jan 2002
The service tax would lead to significant increases in bills, not just for the mega-rich, as is often portrayed, but for people on average and below-average incomes.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 January 2001
Plenary, 18 Jan 2001
I accept the logic of much of the argument that she has presented over the past year and a half, that we should seek to develop and allocate more resources away from the mega-projects and towards the route action plan developments, which can be promoted in all parts of Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 June 2005
Plenary, 09 Jun 2005
They work in a vast and varied sector, which ranges from wee shops that sell second-hand toys and furniture in order to help ill-treated animals—there is one such shop opposite my office in Galashiels—to mega-charities such as Oxfam. However, when a few bad apples contaminated the barrel, the repercussions on donations and on people's attitude towards the s...
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 November 2004
Plenary, 04 Nov 2004
Gordon Brown refuses to increase income tax for the mega-rich by pegging the top rate at 40 per cent, while idly watching as 2,500 senior citizens in Scotland die winter-related deaths.
Official Report
Meeting date:
12 December 2002
Plenary, 12 Dec 2002
I do not mean children going along and playing with one of those Sega mega-box things or whatever they are called—my own children are past that stage and I do not know the terminology.
Official Report
Meeting date:
12 September 2002
Plenary, 12 Sep 2002
They have also been clouded by the strongly founded belief that the health board's consultation, although it devoured forests of paper and mega litres of hot air, was at heart a charade, designed to obtain a pre-ordained outcome.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 February 2006
Environment and Rural Development Committee, 22 Feb 2006
That exact model is already emerging in some clusters around Scotland.If the focus is maintained on the customer pool for the woodchip to be used for energy, the supply chain will emerge to respond to that. If the customer pool is around mega projects, the order of magnitude will be different.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 September 2002
Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Committee, 18 Sep 2002
On the gateway problem, London is a huge gateway for people who come to Scotland and is likely to be so for the forseeable future, unless something mega happens in respect of direct flights into Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
23 March 2000
Plenary, 23 Mar 2000
The Scottish public service vehicle that has been outlined today is nothing more than a mega-quango. The SNP finds it hard to argue that it can deliver its vision for Scotland by the method that has been described today.
