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The expansion of large retailers is not a cost-free option—when they expand and develop, small retailers can be pushed out of business and there may be an overall employment loss rather than an overall employment gain.I note that the FSB has tried to produce statistics around that, and I am slightly disappointed that the Scottish Retail Consortium and the B...
I urge colleagues who have not yet signed the pledge to do so. The SSA has also produced a manifesto for sport that contains many practical and sensible ideas and which I am sure will attract considerable cross-party support.I congratulate our latest Commonwealth games medal winner, Lauren Smith, on an outstanding performance in the synchronised swimming.
That could be sidestepped by the corporate body asking the Government to produce a statutory instrument to reform all the commissioners and, critically, their functions.
Yes, there has been direct action, including, for example, a boycott of Israeli goods, which is much the same thing as the Israelis preventing produce from Palestine from coming to Europe for sale.The fighting must be stopped.
The fact that that petition ended up producing a £16 million budget and a service redesign is a phenomenal achievement, but people do not always appreciate what has been done.
Scottish Water's final water quality figures do not start from a good position relative to England and Wales. The quality of the water produced at the tap is still catching up.
Why the delay? The minutes were produced fairly soon after the event, but I am afraid that I cannot say why they were not published on the web before Friday.
Our current thinking is that we want to produce the first report in the autumn of this year, because by then a reasonable time will have elapsed to enable us to report on progress.