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The current plan forecasts a small surplus on operations for the current financial year. At this point, the best thing we can do is say that we will report to the committee on that once our auditors have started their financial audit work for 2006-07.
I am a little concerned that some of the best-quality packaging will be extracted from kerbside collections and about the impact of that on the markets for such items.
Councils, for example, have not made best use of the receipts and, particularly in East Ayrshire, houses—indeed, parts of villages—were bulldozed and just disappeared.
We look at companies’ capability and capacity, we help them to prepare an international business strategy and then we look at how they can best exploit the opportunities and expand their reach internationally.
Somebody who is in a road accident and requires to be treated at the side of the road is not being treated in a “clean and safe environment”, but they are being treated in the best environment that can be provided at that time.
After a great deal of reflection, the bill team thought that the best approach would be to introduce a new interdict, called a domestic abuse interdict.