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After asking her to lead in the area, we should seek her view on how we progress matters as speedily as possible and what the earliest possible date is for having an integrated IT system in place.
The fees for school care accommodation services have been changed. The commencement date for the regulation of such services applies to schools that were not already regulated.
You mentioned that the order is part of the process of increasing harmonisation, which I understand to be the technical term that denotes the adoption of identical practices in setting rateable values by the assessor north of the border and—I believe—by the Inland Revenue south of the border, although I may be out of date with that information. Which types ...
If the standard is to be of the quality that I would expect, it should contain provisions for ensuring that people who undertake emergency service driving meet certain criteria in respect of their skills being up to date and having been tested within a reasonable time frame.
Our intention is to feed the comments into our timetable for evidence taking.If members have no technical questions for John Houghton or Dr Maggs in relation to the reports from Bond Pearce and Casella Stanger, I invite Mr Houghton to give us a brief summary of events to date. In its letter of 6 July, the committee addressed to the promoter a number of ques...
However, rather than waiting until October, when we will have a full inquiry, we need to keep up to date with all the reviews and the work that is going on so that we can hit the ground running when we have evidence sessions and so on.
How difficult would it be to change from affirmative procedure to negative procedure at a later date? That would be a relatively minor amendment to a piece of legislation, I would have thought.
I take the point that regulatory bodies change and that their functions can be merged or separated, so there would have to be changes to such a list and it would have to be kept up to date. However, I think that there should be a list.
One option is that we could undertake another round of consultation to get people's up-to-date views on specific questions. We could then have a quick evidence-taking session with ministers from Scotland and London.