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The first will ensure that we have the information to chart each authority's performance over time and to compare it with the other Scottish authorities and with the best in the UK. Benchmarking means learning from best practice elsewhere.
We seek to share information and to ensure that officials work with clerks so that we can do our best to co-ordinate our activities to best meet the needs of Scotland.
Does your proposed boundary avoid splitting mountains in two? Yes, to the best of my ability. You said that your proposals would naturally involve the inclusion of a representative from Perth and Kinross Council on the national park board.
However, that will not prevent us from making the policy the best policy that it can be.We started from the ES and used it in consultations with objectors.
Rather than our placing the entire burden on the use of the affirmative procedure, it may be best for us simply to recommend that that should be a shot in the ministerial locker.
We thought that the phrase would be readily understood, and that it would be best decided in court, in the light of all the information that emerged at the trial, whether a particular knife had been designed for domestic use.
We listed the avoidance of infraction. I guess that, in the best of all possible worlds, we should not be in the position whereby we are up against infraction deadlines and so on, but that does happen.
If parents forget that the focus should be on the interests of the child, some pressure should be put on them by suggesting to them that they have an obligation to sit down and consider what is in the child's best interests in the current situation.