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Implementation has required and is requiring real change, which is often extremely difficult for individuals and the system as a whole, including exercises such as job sizing and the de-layering of management grades within our schools.
Inter-school competitive sport, which is organised so that pupils play against equally matched opponents in the early stages, builds health and fitness and an esprit de corps in schools. It encourages community spirit and pupils who are disgruntled and cause difficulties at school tend to calm down as a result of it.
I have no doubt that Scottish farmers will seize the potential that full decoupling offers.I move amendment S2M-556.3, to leave out from first "endorses" to end and insert:"encourages representatives of the farming and crofting industries to use the consultation process to lobby for full de-coupling of support payments based on historical entitlements."
Promises that the Scottish Executive made in the previous session to address the issue are now fulfilled by the Sewel motion, which will improve control over the availability of fireworks and go a long way towards ensuring that fireworks do not get into the wrong hands—the hands of those who wish only to create mischief.I will make the point clear: the hundreds of constituents who attended the public meetings in Kilmarnock and Loudoun that my Westminster colleague Des...
Several issues impact on that specific area. It would be possible, under a de minimis rule relative to state aid, to provide some assistance to certain small and medium-sized enterprises.
Through their oral evidence, academics, practitioners, housing associations, property managers, public bodies and representative groups such as Age Concern Scotland helped the committee to de-layer the bill and measure its practical effects.
If we are not going to bring the 2001 act into force and are going to pass another act to supersede it, we might as well de-clutter the statute book. I am sure that the lawyers who are giving evidence and on the committee agree that the statute book is cluttered enough.