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First, I echo the point that several members have made about the need for us to build on lessons that have been learned and, indeed, on successes to date in the development of onshore wind in respect of employment and a wider energy policy.
We examined the brief history of ASBOs to date and the experience in England and Wales, which suggested that the level of uptake for ASBOs for under-16s that is suggested in the financial memorandum, which is 100 per annum, is slightly higher than we would have estimated it to be.
It is not numbered among today's papers because it came in too late. The letter is dated 1 December 2003 and explains some of the amendments, which members might find useful.
Much of the debate in the ministerial committee has obviously been about how we can address the concerns that have been raised. To date, visitscotland.com has received more than £7.1 million-worth of bookings, and it is willing to look at ways of adapting entry points into the website to take into account many of the concerns that have been raised in the re...
The Government and the Executive have fulsomely responded to meeting the need to bring the structure up to date. Elements within those improvements will undoubtedly contribute to permitting a larger number of consumers to use the network.
To make a decent performance indicator, we must know exactly what the policy is in a measurable way.As I have alluded to, the way in which we have handled difficult numbers issues in the PAF to date has been through qualitative indicators, which means that the data are a bit softer.
We stand absolutely by the financial memorandum's statement that no costs of any significance will be associated with dissolving trusts. I will bring the committee up to date on community health partnerships.
If the council feels that that site could be up and running before the desired opening date for Straiton, which was supposed to be in April next year, my view is that it should go it alone.
Committee members will remember that last year's amount—£643 million—was partly the result of more than £90 million that was carried forward to help meet the cost of the Glasgow housing stock transfer. Had the transfer date slipped from February this year to April, the figure would have been much higher than £394 million.We have a responsibility to make the...
Given the timing of elections, there is probably an even bigger question mark over the potential implementation date if some of them go ahead. How quickly will the proposals in the white paper, if implemented, begin to have an effect?