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The time limit for the exercise of compulsory purchase powers was reduced from seven years to five years after the date of royal assent, as she indicated.
Elsewhere in the bill, ministers have the opportunity to modify that date. I encourage them to do so and to consider whether, in due course, the same processes could be applied to shorter sentences.
I advise the member that, as a resident of Yorkhill, I got a notice, which I read on my return from holiday after I had drunk about two pints of water.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 December 2002
Will he give due consideration to any request to revise pupil placement legislation to allow schools to bank places for more than one year to allow children to go to their local school?
The difficulty arises when people who claim to be coarse fishing are trying to catch brown trout, for example, by setting four rods on a bank and leaving bait on the bottom of them.
I have set in train a number of measures and have sought reassurance from boards, because there are no excuses for not meeting the target by the date that I mentioned in my initial response.
On the other hand, the two motions that I have had debated—that instrumental music instructors get a raw deal and that banks are screwing people who are in debt—concerned general issues.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 December 2002