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The key to refining the biomass is to link it with electricity or combined heat and power projects of scale and thereby to feed into the rapid development of a local heat market.
The English statutory instrument was made and laid to a rapid timetable because—well, we were all late, but we were hosting a mission from the European Commission authorities.
So we will send out a letter to all MSPs asking for their views. We want a rapid response so that we can discuss their views at the next committee meeting.
The incident did not happen out of hours, but it happened during the day when the GP practice was closed for training, so it was a very similar scenario.A briefing note on the investigation states:"the investigation concluded that the management of the RRU"—rapid response unit—"in particular had been inappropriate.
Members indicated agreement. Before closing what has been a rapid meeting, I inform members that our next meeting is expected to take place on Tuesday 3 May 2005.
They include devolved joint budgets, rapid response teams, augmented care services, integrated care services, care and repair schemes, aids and adaptations, and joint funding of posts.
More action might have to be taken against charities to enforce the new legislation. I am intrigued by the rapid inflation in OSCR's budget. Would we have a better chance of controlling that if we were to match the English definition of charitable status and retain charitable status for all existing charities?
It is my honest view that, if we proceed to stage 2 of the Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill, there will be very little scope within the programme to do anything further, as the time scale will not allow it. Could we have a rapid rundown of what we have left to do and when we must do it by?
Work on the assessment and validation of a commercial, rapid, qualitative assay for the detection of ASP and paralytic shellfish poisoning in the UK monitoring programme as an end-product test is also under way.