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We hold subsidiarity and local accountability dear. As a member of the Local Government Committee, I think that it would be inappropriate for Parliament to intervene on any occasion on which we thought that local authorities were making the wrong budgeting decisions for projects, especially given the argument that is active in local authorities throughout t...
Does he agree that today, some 200 years later, it is time for a reassessment, so that the merits of the barracks at Bridge of Don in Aberdeen, Fort George and Inverness are properly taken into account? I was not aware of all those details.
I am coming to the final point of my answer. I will try to take account of Mr Ewing's very point in considering how to deal with people who have expended money in making their applications.
There is increasing consensus that we should move towards common registers and common allocations policies that will allow those sorts of issues to be taken into account.
It might be—this is on the agenda for future research—that informal carers are now doing different things, but there has not been a wholesale reduction in informal caring, which is something that lay at the back of the minority report to the Royal Commission on Long Term Care for the Elderly.
In Britain, we grow quite a lot of trees, although forestry accounts for a relatively small proportion of land cover here compared with other European countries.
You said recently that you would consider an amendment to rectify an anomaly in respect of Skipton Fund payments being taken into account in other proceedings. Yes. Is that still likely to form an Executive amendment?
The bill was an opportunity to consider, discuss and address the issues. It was an opportunity to lay a framework for the future and to lay the tracks for transport infrastructure.