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I ask the committee whether it is within its powers to have that date postponed and whether, in the interim, a survey on traffic in the Sidegate and Haddington could be carried out in which the rest of the residents in the Sidegate can participate.
These regulations amend the Bovines and Bovine Products (Trade) Regulations 1999, and permit the dispatch of beef on the bone from premises approved under the date-based export scheme to the domestic market.The deadline for parliamentary action on this order is 16 September.
I do not know whether there will be another opportunity at a later date to finalise discussion on this important matter, so it is best that I give some consideration to the points made by the members of the committee.
A further cause for concern is that so many houses fall ‘Below Tolerable Standard', even though that Standard was set almost 30 years ago and is now out of date."If it was out of date in 1997, it is even more out of date now.
Having listened to the debate on Commonwealth week before the recess and the harrowing tales of the lack of medical services in Malawi, I was reminded that many Scottish doctors have worked in Africa relatively recently.
I hope that they will shape and influence some of the things that will emerge in the housing bill.I commend the Executive amendment to the chamber. Somewhere deep in the recesses of Victoria Quay, there is somebody who writes every single Executive amendment.
We believe that the work that has been done to date has not fully captured the wider costs that will be essential to delivering the new planning system.To try to identify the associated costs, we sought further advice from five representative councils from across the country.
The point has been well made—perhaps we can revisit the matter informally at a later date. We will try to consider the issue, but my team would kill me if I overcommitted them.
As a matter of course, we keep up to date with developments elsewhere in Europe that impact on Scotland and we do our best to convey that information to the appropriate committees.