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It can be quite misleading to talk in percentages, whether we are talking about the number that we started off with in 2002 or the figure for 2006, at the start of this four-year period, as a percentage of where we are today. I would far rather pin it down to volumes of water. I keep returning to the reduction in megalitres per day because there is real val...
The savings that can be made right now are potentially huge and the costs to implement them relatively low if sufficient numbers of governments, industries, businesses and consumers act".The potential for de-carbonising modern economies is huge.
Many members commented about the delay, including Tom McCabe, Margaret Smith and Des McNulty. Let us look at wee bit further back into the history of the Scottish Futures Trust.
Although international development is a reserved area, I accept 100 per cent the important role that the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Parliament can play. Des McNulty will confirm that, when I was a minister at DFID, I encouraged that.
I am on the record in the Parliament time and again as opposing ring fencing, but when the member's party insists on a council tax freeze, de facto it partly fetters elected councillors' discretion.
I can give you an example of a close contrast on Loch Lomondside, where we recently had planning applications from the De Vere Group, which is considering a £50 million reinvestment in Cameron house.