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The English IFCAs are a valuable model, fulfilling many aims of the co-management agenda, with one study highlighting that 12 stakeholder groups were members of IFCA Committees or Boards compared to only two (mobile and static commercial fishing) for Scotland’s IFGs.
I am therefore happy to explore this matter further, but I would wish to do so cautiously to avoid expanding the definitions too broadly. • Covenanter memorials – I understand that many of these memorials are protected by Historic Environment Scotland through listed building status or designation as scheduled monuments.
Witnesses also explained to the Committee that in National Parks, many of the existing frameworks in relation to land use and farming regulation remain the same as those operating outside of a National Park area.
I also wanted to add a note about public value. We have filmed inside many of Scotland’s key institutions – the courts, police, hospitals, ambulance service, schools and prisons.
In practice, it would be entirely inaccurate and unfair to make this criticism of the Labour Government, which invested very strongly in both cash benefits and services for children, as the body of work done at CASE over many years has testified. But it is something to keep in mind.
Through the scheme modelling, Transport Scotland and CPT do our best to predict how fares levels and patronage will change through the course of the year. However, there are many factors that can impact bus use and push us closer to the budget cap.
Penalties • There were concerns from two participants that fines are not a sufficient deterrent. • Concerns were raised that anti-abortion organisations can fund-raise to pay fines and that many of those attending protests may not be high earners – meaning that, if they receive relatively small fines, they can arrange to have them paid and continue to prote...