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To ask the Scottish Executive how many examination appeals were submitted by 10 January 2001 from each local authority area for review under the procedure announced by the Minister for Education, Europe and External Affairs on 13 December 2000 and whether any cases put forward after this date have been excluded from the appeals review process solely becaus...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 January 2001
Information is not availableto break down numbers of devolution issues raised by Sheriff Court jurisdictionand date or to allow specification of the current stage each challenge bydevolution issue minute has reached.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 January 2000
Objections have been made to the scheme, which the Council are still attemping to resolve.The question of completion dates, and commencement of construction, is for the councils concerned and not for the Scottish Executive.
Part of the claims process is a thorough understanding of why those dates were not met. In some instances, the dates were not met through no fault of the individual trade package contractor.
The date for commencement was 1 July 1996, but civil servants never bothered to put the regulations in place and, as I understand it, they never bothered to tell the secretary of state that the legislation was not going to be commenced.
We certainly discussed the Scottish Civic Forum's effectiveness and contribution to date. We wanted to say that it was a gateway organisation, but that it was not the only one.