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In September 2011, Audit Scotland reported that the funding model for processing planning applications was becoming unsustainable. To address that, in March 2012 we published a consultation paper on new regulations for planning application fees, which would have led to substantial increases.
If we did not have a scheme in place by February or March, when we usually do our annual billing and council tax exercise, things would be very difficult for us.
I watched the previous Greek Prime Minister several times on television. He marched into the EU saying “Right, we’ve no money for pensions, this, that and the next thing,” and they said “Right, the medicine is we’ll give you money and forced austerity.”
A cyclist can now stay on their bike and get safely across the road. That started in March and it is not finished, but I have no doubt that it will encourage people to cycle and to feel that their children are safe doing so, too.
—Official Report, Finance Committee, 4 March 2015; c 2. She was looking at the £2.7 billion a year that is being invested in early years services and, relative to that figure, the shift is small.
In Stirling, people became used to the sight and particularly the sound of soldiers marching to the playing of pipes from Stirling castle to the railway station as they left for war.
We will give you a breakdown of the number in the press that you were talking about, but part of it involves the write-down of the value of assets to the end of March 2013, before we acquired the business.