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The system that was in place had individual accounting, reporting, monitoring and evaluation arrangements for each of those funding streams, which in total accounted for 20 per cent of our resources.
Therefore, it is much better for me to issue instructions and to have in place a framework in which we can take account of intelligence and information from a wide range of bodies.
Otherwise, if there is not going to be competition, the Government should do what we are asking and have a publicly owned and publicly accountable railway throughout the network.
The prospect of a more democratically accountable commission was welcomed by most; it will help to improve the way in which the commission functions and relates to individual crofters.
We will also ensure that Scotland's specific circumstances are taken into account in the EU consultation. We have a mixed fishery in Scottish waters and it might not be as simple as some people think to reduce discards.
That new section would give ministers specific powers to lay down standards for community payback orders to ensure that they are prompt, effective and proportional, and that they make a difference.
That would be pro rata with the transport economy as a whole.One of the problems with publishing something like a national planning framework is that it is a hostage to fortune. Government will be held to account unless it pays for and delivers everything in there.