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If I am unfair to fishermen in Scotland, I will have Scottish MPs on my back, and the same is true for Northern Ireland and England. That is how accountability should work. I am accountable to all those people and they are, in turn, accountable to their electorates and the fis...
The Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 places a duty on the Scottish ministers to ensure that reductions in net Scottish emissions of greenhouse gases account for at least 80 per cent of the reduction in the net Scottish emissions account.
The long-term plan is revised annually and it takes account of demographic issues and tries to take account of other policy and public contexts in which decisions are made.
They remain key to keeping politicians accountable locally and nationally. Local papers are generally without party-political bias, which one cannot say about the national press.
We believe that a specific aggravator will provide reassurance to victims that the issue will be formally taken into account by the court when the effects of the offence are being considered.
Let us hope that further plans involve local authorities and accountability.17:54 I congratulate Murdo Fraser on obtaining his members’ business debate.
Yesterday, the Labour leader referred to a speech that I gave in Glasgow in March. Her account of that was of course a little different from the press account of it the next day, but then, for Labour, living in a fact-free universe is nothing new.