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We are modernising our supervisory practice and laying out proposals for changes in the global regulatory architecture, as we set out in the Turner report earlier this year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 August 2009
As all debtor applications are now received by the Accountant in Bankruptcy (AiB), the debtor application figures are not allocated to individual sheriff court areas but are given as a separate total for each sheriffdom.
Perhaps we also need democratic accountability. In economic development in local authorities, for example, there is democratic accountability, because constituents will be the first to complain if their economic development convener is not doing whatever they should be doing.
One of the reasons why the estimates of potential users are variable is because the routes that were being considered were somewhat different. Further, we must take into account that if we get people on to rail, we get them out of the bus.