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The committee may consider that better advance planning of the regulations could have avoided the breach, taking into account that directive 2011/97/EU, which is implemented by the regulations, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union in December 2011 and provided until 15 March 2013 for implementation.The Scottish Government has explained to the committee that the timings of the implementation of the directive and the chosen date...
Will the cabinet secretary confirm what rights victims currently have to information about the release date of those who have been convicted of, and sentenced to prison for, crimes against them?
In our forecasts for gross domestic product growth this year and over the next five years, we are somewhat more optimistic than the Bank of England was in its most recent forecast back in November, and than the average of outside forecasters polled by the Treasury.
In the past 10 years or so, I have visited many refugee camps, including in Gaza, Lebanon, Syria and the West Bank. However, the jungle in Calais is among the worst that I have been to.
The way in which it is implemented is the problem, rather than the fact that the money comes from a bank as opposed to from Government. The money is simply a resource that pays for the goods.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all recipients of funding from the Cashback for Communities programme, showing the (a) date of the award, (b) amount received and (c) postcode of the organisation.
Given that we are five years from what was the consensus, which I think was shared by Scottish Power, it perhaps does not surprise me that there were not detailed contingency plans in place for a closure in 2020, 2022 or 2023, which were probably the initial dates that we had in our heads.
That gives the company a cash flow, which makes it more creditworthy in the bank’s eyes. Therefore, between the company’s own resources and bank lending, opening up the site becomes much more economic.
Ultimately, the underlying cause of the crisis is political failure—the failure over decades to address the occupation of the west bank, the on-going settlement policy, the continued sanctions and the blockade of the territory.