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I know the SSPCA well, and I would say that Mike Flynn, whom I meet regularly on a range of animal welfare issues, is the best person to ask whether the SSPCA thinks that it can take on these powers.
My local authority in South Lanarkshire has been purchasing, through finance, quite a lot of private houses in the area, particularly in East Kilbride. Do you know of any best practice in relation to other local authorities doing that sort of thing?
My local authority in South Lanarkshire has been purchasing, through finance, quite a lot of private houses in the area, particularly in East Kilbride. Do you know of any best practice in relation to other local authorities doing that sort of thing?
More than £1 billion has been spent on 12 new benefits, which include council tax reduction, the Scottish child payment and the best start grant. A lot of those benefits are outside the health portfolio.
We are having conversations on that with local authorities. Do you feel that that is the best approach, or would you welcome an opportunity to do the same as the UK Infrastructure Bank does?
I wonder, and some of the public wonder, whether we are doing energy the best way that we can. As I understand it, Scotland produces five times as much gas as it uses.
However, common frameworks offer the best existing model for an alternative way of managing the practical, day-to-day challenges of managing regulatory coherence in a devolved state such as the United Kingdom.
We need to have turnover and make best use of our stock so that it does not expire, so that we keep abreast of what is modern and what staff need to use by way of PPE, and so that staff are fully trained in its use and how we distribute it to people.