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I do not know whether you can answer this but with regard to the CAP legislative proposals the “Brussels Bulletin” refers to“a voluntary additional payment (up to 5% of the national ceiling) for farmers in disadvantaged areas”.Does that mean that the 80 per cent of Scotland that is officially classed as disadvantaged will get an additional 5 per cent paymen...
No; the Government, through the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth and the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy, introduced a non-profit distribution programme that will add £750 million to expenditure in the national health service in the next few years.I have quoted the three tables, cited Iain Gray’s deplorable record and explained how we are getting...
I made it clear that we want to support the Government in legislating against bigotry in football and, indeed, anywhere else.To achieve consensus, however, we have to try to get the approach right. This week’s examination of the bill has not helped with that.
The clerks will liaise directly with members with regard to the date. Members should get in touch with the clerks if they have any further ideas about who should be there.
To allow the clerk and our research specialist, who is sitting at the side of the room, to prepare further information on the topics for full discussion in the future, it would be helpful if we could get an idea of topics on which we think that it would be useful to go forward.
I would look at the principle that is in operation, which is that, in civil litigation, someone who is successful may or may not get an award of their judicial expenses—again, the court has discretion about how to award those expenses; people do not always get all their judicial costs back.
Let me also make it clear, for the avoidance of doubt in the reporting of the issue, that the Government is concerned and has been active. SNH is also active. Yesterday, I had another discussion with Andrew Thin, the chair of SNH, about the issue.