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I think that it was suggested at the committee's meeting in Stornoway that there is a problem, because proposed assignees can present a programme of works for the next five years but there is no way of checking up on them to see whether they carry them out.
Our aim is to secure a sensible and workable solution for Scotland that recognises the planning system as it is in Scotland. Amendment 169 would not assist the negotiation of planning obligations and is more likely to complicate them.
The guidance is clearly crucial to our being able to assist in that area if voluntary organisations are not going to be landed with all sorts of intractable problems that handicap their activities.
The purpose of the scheme is to introduce a permanent means of assisting low-income households largely occupying lower Council Tax bands, in receipt of CTB, which had previously received little or no assistance with their water services charges.
To ask the Scottish Executive who administers the European Interreg funding programme. Scotland participates in four INTERREG IIIB (Trans-national co-operation) programmes.
It was not as if we were going to start the debt arrangement scheme and suddenly there would be 3,000 programmes; it takes time to build up such programmes.
As Annabel Goldie said, it is important that, when women turn to the legal system for assistance, that assistance should be delivered swiftly and efficiently.