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Given that two thirds of planting is done by private owners, is it not the case that investment has been reduced because of the crunch and the recession? I could be wrong, but my understanding is that it is less to do with the recession and more to do with what we might call behavioural attitudes of farmers, who do n...
That is the first of the responses to the FOI requests.That note was dated 20 July but there is another piece of correspondence dated 4 August from Norman Macleod, Historic Scotland’s solicitor, to Dorothy Hoskins.
If we do not have supplementary defence statements, how do we ensure that the procurator fiscal and the Crown are up to date? A defence position can change during the course of a prosecution.
The petition has been in front of us previously and we have not had a full response to all our points, so I think that members will want to continue our consideration of it. In a letter dated 16 November, the petitioner raises some specific issues.
We responded to the consultation on the muirburn dates. The consultation paper gave no specific details about how the dates would be changed—about whether the period of burning would be longer or shorter or whether it would be lengthened at the start or at the end.
You quite rightly mentioned long-term planning. I am very conscious that, to date, £300 million has been spent through the change fund for older people in the NHS.