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Statistics on the average time taken to deal with an application are not maintained, but the Agency has this year processed some 88% of properly completed applications within its published target of 28 days from the date of receipt. S1W-01632
I note that since the beginning of the summer recess she has asked only two questions on criminal justice, compared with 25 questions from her justice spokesperson.
For the past decade, the only thing to be heard from a Tory about the two recessions, the double-digit inflation, the record unemployment, the 15 per cent interest rates and the doubling of the national debt was, "It wisnae me."
I challenge anybody who thinks that to spend a week during the summer recess working with one of the projects, talking directly to the young people and staff involved and doing something constructive by finding out about the projects and getting some new ideas.
The first is the accountability of the contractors for their local responsibilities. Last year, during the October recess, I phoned the BEAR depot in Keith about making a courtesy visit.
She said that that was another indication that the Scottish economy is performing robustly.If recession followed by meagre improvement—barely one fifth of the long-term trend rate—is a robust performance, I would hate to see what the Executive would regard as relative decline.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 December 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had any meetings or correspondence with any ferry operators since January 2004 regarding a possible foot-passenger-only ferry service between Gourock and Dunoon and, if so, on what dates any such (a) meetings took place and (b) correspondence was exchanged.