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(Scotland) Act 2004 has not been universal; agrees that antisocial behaviour blights the quality of people's lives and should not be tolerated but believes that prevention is better than cure when it comes to protecting communities from disorder and encourages communities to report all incidents of crime and disorder so that they can be properly addressed; ...
I am pleased that the A801 is at the top of your agenda, as ever, but I would be even more pleased if we ever saw some finance for it.Clearly, we live in interesting times, economically and financially.
Not a week goes past in which we do not deal with an issue for our members on live projects. That has perhaps quietened down slightly because of the lack of activity, but generally there is a long way to go.
On the ground that the Germans still have an industrial quotient of gross national product above 25 per cent—ours is roughly half that—that seems to me, having lived there for 30 years, a sensible policy.What constraints would be put on any form of generation future by the fact that when we went into North Sea oil in 1970 we had an industrial quotient of gr...
Strong competitive pressure certainly drives the process in the right way.It is typical for all partnerships to feature benchmarking and reviews throughout their lives. In a 15-year relationship, it is a challenge to ensure continuing value for money.
The chair of that parents council attended Causewayend school as a boy. He still lives on the next street and has one child in primary school and one in nursery at Causewayend.
I have spoken to both of them and both would like to report to a committee, because that would make their lives easier. They publish annual reports but, to the best of my knowledge, we have never discussed an annual report from any commissioner.
The point is to force it to share information. We live in changed times. Murray Tosh referred to the proposal for parallel consideration of instruments by the Subordinate Legislation Committee and the lead committee and to the recommendation that the Subordinate Legislation Committee be allowed to consider the instrument once before the lead committee does ...
However, Iain Docherty said that equity is a red herring because no transport system gives equal access to all people living in all parts of the country. Some witnesses suggest that the abolition of tolls would create inequality between road users and the general public, through the use of general taxation to fund the bridge.
Given that we could have got an airport link for about a third of the price that we are being asked to pay, without building a tunnel that goes into a canyon underneath a live airport runway, it must make some sense to audit the present proposals.