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The previous charge has been identified as having a date of sentence which is earlier than the date of sentence for the latest charge of handling an offensive weapon.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 November 2007
My understanding is that local authorities have been given an extra £155 million—it might not be in their bank accounts, but they have it. I met my local authority, Glasgow City Council, and it told me that the money was there.
Overrecruiting sounds a little mad, but it is not because, as we have overrecruited, we have minimised some of the agency use and bank use of consultant staff. As the churn happens, we have somebody to walk into the vacated post.
Further, I wonder whether there was consideration of how payments would be made to those without a bank account, as I think that the regulations talk about BACS payments.
A lot of those student officers may have dropped out of their role during the year, especially when national assessment bank items and graded units came up. It is a lot of work to take on that level of responsibility, and sometimes it has to give when the student has to focus on their academic progression.
As part of that transitional arrangement, I have delayed until 1 June the date on which public bodies need to comply with both the sustainable procurement duty and the community benefits obligation.
Did that give the committee any difficulties in having up-to-date information? We had information and data from a number of years about air weapons offences.