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NorthLink ships are leased from the Royal Bank of Scotland. So if NorthLink had new proposals, it would go back to that private bank to get provision for a new lease.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
12 November 2013
I thought the overseas challenge sounded quite nice. I could go on holiday and pay the equivalent into Marie Curie, but then I realised that I would have to go on holiday to run, cycle, walk or hike, and I thought, “I’m not doing that either.”
She was constantly held to a different standard from that to which others were held—on time off in lieu, holidays and time off for compassionate leave or medical reasons.
After I had signed the member’s motion, a constituent wrote to me to express concern about it, suggesting that it may be an “exercise in futurism reminiscent of the predictions made in the 1960’s that we would now be having holidays on the moon”. I do not think that any of us have had a holiday on the moon—at least...
I have from 1995 a parliamentary answer from Jamie Lindsay in the House of Lords that shows that, as early as that date, Reidside moss—my near neighbour—was being considered for special protection, which was granted in 2004 under the European Union’s Natura 2000 initiative.