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I have gone some way towards ensuring that some of your interests are accounted for. We await progress on that with interest.We would welcome some clarification on one other point, in relation to the Treaty of Lisbon.
We will also consider part 2, on order-making powers, part 6, on scrutiny and changes to the Public Finance and Accountability (Scotland) Act 2000, and the minor provisions in part 7.
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Date answered:
25 November 2010
Environmental voluntary organisations work in a variety of ways to hold the Scottish Government to account for particular aspects of sustainability policy, including through regular meetings with ministers.
I have also been at a retrieval at which I helped to lay out and put in a bridesmaid’s dress a seven-year-old girl—an organ donor—who, about two weeks before, had been a bridesmaid.
There is a reduction in the number of jobs, which means that companies are having to lay off staff. We are not throwing money at the problem—far from it.
I am clearly not going to get the answer.I disavow Mr Lonsdale’s point—I am sure that the Government will lay out the impact assessment. In fact, I do not believe that it would have reached its decision without already having done so.
Amendment 59 seeks to limit the levy to premises where licensees are selling only alcohol, which does not take account of takeaways and so on that also contribute to the night time economy.