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The Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill which will enable questions on religion to be asked in future censuses was introduced in the Scottish Parliament yesterday by the Executive. It fulfils the undertaking given by Deputy First Minister Jim Wallace to include a voluntary question on religion.
Glasgow baker James McPhie yesterday became the first petitioner to address the public petitions committee, with a plea for a planned bus corridor along the city's Shettleston Road to be scrapped. The petition, backed by 17,000 local people, stated: ''The people of Shettleston do not wish to live in a corridor - they want to live in a community.''
A new computer system for the Inland Revenue may not now be running properly until June next year - more than three years late - it was disclosed today. The National Audit Office said the National Insurance accounts system had already cost the taxpayer an extra #53m sorting out the problems it had caused, including #37m in compensation for wrong payments.
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