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If members of the two Opposition parties seriously believe that people cannot differentiate between their local councillors and their MSPs, it is clear that they do not live in the constituency that I live in—indeed, they do not live in the world that I live in.
I am talking not only about the impact on their working lives but about the effect that all of this has had on their partners, families and private lives.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people living in Abbeyfield Homes have been required to pay council tax since the start of 2005-06 as a result of the implementation of an amendment to the Local Government Finance Act 1992.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 August 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has made any assessment of the number of registered blind persons living in the islands who would benefit from the extension of the national free concessionary travel scheme for blind people to cover air travel between the islands and the mainland.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 August 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how many complaints have been received by NHS 24 from people living in the Clydesdale constituency and how many of these have been upheld.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 February 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pupils have been refused places at their chosen secondary schools where those pupils lived in the official catchment area for the school in question in each year since 1998, broken down by local authority area.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 December 1999
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give its interpretation of section 7a of EU council directive 91/492 which lays down the health conditions for the production and placing on the market of live bivalve molluscs. I refer to my answer to question number S1W- 03152 S1W-03153
It is not good enough to say, "Well, we won't be able to provide that facility for you" just because someone lives in a rural area. That is the question we need to address.
The code advises anglers to remember"not to move live fish to another river or lake … to dry your tackle, boots and waders before going to another lake, so as to avoid spreading live organisms and diseases … that tackle used in rivers and lakes carrying infectious diseases must be disinfected"and"to clean and wash fi...