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A person who is no longer an employee can be asked to leave—we put that in the bill after listening to concerns—but I am not persuaded that to ask people to leave so that an employee can be brought in is the right approach. Holiday lets do not come into this situation, and some employers use short-term holiday lets ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
16 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Scottish Natural Heritage refresh of its corporate plan to cover 2017 to 2022 will cover access to assets in decline and not conservation of these assets.
Such regulations cease to have effect on the expiry of the period of 28 days beginning with the date on which the regulations were made unless, before the expiry of that period, they have been approved by a resolution of the Parliament.
We work with Social Security Scotland to ensure that we get as much up-to-date information as possible about expenditure, so that our forecasts can be revised.
The briefing discusses the various changes to Government policy in this area dating back to 2005 and the Scottish Executive’s national framework for service change in the NHS.
The Improvement Service’s report does not include up-to-date data—it is now a couple of months out of date—but we are hearing anecdotally around the country that the numbers are dropping.
It is fair to say that Prestwick airport has been receiving a substantial amount of loan funding from the public purse for nearly five years. Why, to date, has no one done any analysis of the cost of running the passenger operation?
That builds trust, and from there we can look not only to get them to their court date but to deal with the underlying issues that brought them to court in the first place.