Alex Salmond was returned for a second period as national convener and has led the party's Westminster group, with deputy Nicola Sturgeon leading the Holyrood team.
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This is a reasonable, legitimate debate to be had, even if it exposes the tension between their group in Cardiff and Westminster.
The Westminster government has set up an expert group to advise on testing and assessment, which will report later in the spring.
The Street Buddies project, run by housing and care provider Riverside English Churches Housing Group (Riverside ECHG) and Westminster Council, is funded by the Homeless Transition Fund.
Turning to the imminent UK election, Ms Sturgeon told delegates a strong group of MPs would wield influence at Westminster - and help win the case for Scottish independence.
The group aims to recruit support from other parties at Westminster with the aim of putting pressure on the prime minister.
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But anti-gum campaigners such as Westminster Councillor Alan Bradley, are unimpressed, describing the Defra group as "dancing to the manufacturers' tune".
The anti-cuts pressure group Right to Work occupied a Tesco branch in Westminster at the weekend and bombarded its HQ and that of other big high street names with demands that work be paid the minimum rate.
Chair of the Plaid Cymru group in the assembly Dr Dai Lloyd said the new Westminster government must refocus on the "legitimate bid" the assembly had unanimously made for a referendum.
Speakers at the conference (which then moved to a nearby hotel) included a retired philosophy professor, a representative of the Catholic archdiocese of Westminster, the chairman of the Tory Party's oldest pressure group, the Bow Group, Phillip Blond (another Tory adviser) and Cristina Odone, a journalist married to an editor at this newspaper.
Following the announcement by Westminster last year to close the factory, Dundee City Council established a cross-party group of MPs, MSPs, councillors and trade unions to look at the feasibility of bidding for the business and creating a sustainable enterprise.
The Westminster government is publishing its first analysis paper on Monday - the same day the fiscal commission working group, which was set up by SNP leader Alex Salmond last March, publishes its economic proposals for an independent Scotland.
Even Nick Bourne, a Tory member, who sat on the National Assembly advisory group and is a law professor, says he does not fully understand the division of power between Westminster and Cardiff.
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