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Members will be informed of the final deadline for amendments once the stage 3 date has been determined.12:45 Meeting continued in private until 12:52.
We are revisiting farmers and, in the 277 repeat visits carried out to date, 75 per cent of farms have remedial measures in place—the improvements have been achieved.
The second, if it is of any value, is to bring you up to date and tell you a little bit about how the work that I did in the west of Scotland—which started as the Clyde valley review, but has now branched out beyond that area—deals with matters pertinent to the committee’s inquiry.
All four authorities hold fairly regular surgeries with prisoners to plan accommodation, to consider some of the issues that you highlighted and either to arrange for mediation or reopen negotiations with their families—if that is where they are returning to—or, for those with tenancies, to liaise with colleagues in neighbourhood or tenancy management services to ensure that we can sustain and maintain those tenancies for the duration of the sentence.From our point of view, the prison protocol has been working exceptionally well. I do not have very up-to-date...
I expect that as we head towards the likely date for the referendum in late 2014, the amount of time and space that we devote to journalism on BBC 1 Scotland and BBC 2 Scotland will grow.I believe that the total amount of news and current affairs that we offer, which is already higher than it was five years ago, will not diminish and will need to increase f...
Those of us who have followed the Scottish Government’s plans from day 1 in 2007 are heartened by the success to date of the measures to encourage new entrants into farming.
The meeting was very constructive.For the life of me, I cannot understand why things went so smoothly but then, two a half weeks after the date of the committee, everything seemed to fall apart.
We are also seeing cuts in community transport and in many low-level services on which older people rely.From our point of view, we are simply storing up more costly interventions at a later date because local authorities are not investing in early intervention services.
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Date answered:
22 January 2010
Name of Contract Tender Value Contract Award Date Supplier M8 M77 to Clyde Tunnel Westbound Reconstruction (Greenock) £3,970,399.02 May 2007 Tarmac Construction Ltd M8/A8 Bishopton & M8/C22 Overbridges Strengthening Works £1,579,297.00 May 2007 ...