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How would you handle demand for science, bearing in mind the fact that the Scots have produced a quarter of all the great British inventions with only about 10 per cent of the population?
Surely one of the objectives of producing a report is to produce a good one that—we hope—will have some influence on the people at whom it is aimed, whether those are members of the Executive or other bodies.
We need people to run things. It is no good producing a nice all-weather football pitch if there are no adults to organise youth teams and to get things going.
It seems reasonable to place a duty on local authorities to produce maps, because, as the bill stands, that appears to be optional.I move amendment 285.
Now it has been announced that the line will go ahead within five years. The reality is that Labour will produce the re-announcement when it thinks that it is in trouble, but it will not produce the goods.
Research from other countries seems to show that compulsion in the community, combined with enhanced service, produces better outcomes. Even the enhanced services by themselves produce good outcomes.