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In other words, I hope that we can give helpful guidance and observations based on our experience to date that would be available immediately following the next election for new members to at least consider.
The figure of 10 per cent may simply have followed on from the Child Minding and Day Care (Registration and Inspection Fees) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2001 (SSI 2001/214).We also will seek clarification on the fee for the annual continuation of registration, which is payable on the registration date, and whether that means that two payments will have...
I am conscious that I may be committing myself to something without knowing its date or duration. In the event of your unavailability, would not it be best to make our reserve our deputy convener?
However, I would not like discussion of it to be postponed until an unspecified date. Much depends on what happens in the budget, over which we have no control.
HS has adopted the tack of managing capital charges centrally, which illustrates the emphasis that I put on the role of senior management. The cash balances—the bank account—have always been managed centrally, and that will continue to be the case in Historic Scotland.
On Tuesday evening, I attended a very good dinner of Scots beef at Glasgow city chambers, in order to hear Mr Eddie George, the governor of the Bank of England, deliver a speech on the economy.