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First, the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee seeks input on a series of options on how, under the new system, determinations are made on whether a matter should go to the Subordinate Legislation Committee.
And the decision.I will see you all again, so even though it is written on my brief, I will not wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. I will do that next Tuesday when we have an informal meeting in private, for the best of reasons: lunch.Meeting closed at 12:11.
The bid will emphasise the superb infrastructure that is in place and our nation’s unrivalled passion for sport. I welcome the minister to his new post. Does he agree that we need to create a positive working relationship between stakeholders and that all elected members should be involved in helping to bring the 2018 youth Olympic games to Glasgow, to buil...
I thank the Deputy First Minister for her best wishes.It is good news that the Scottish Government will increase nursery education for three and four-year-olds, but Save the Children tells us that, before the age of three, the children from disadvantaged backgrounds have already fallen behind.
As part of that work, we commissioned research into prescribing, which has shown that, since 2009, there has been a decline in the initiation of new antipsychotics and, overall, a decreasing trend in antipsychotic use.
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s position is on the study published by the New Economics Foundation relating to a halt to mackerel fishing.
We are told that there will be a multiple choice questionnaire: I believe that anyone who has done the training course since 2010 will be allowed to continue without doing the new course. I point out, with the greatest of respect to the organisations that are involved in the training courses, that concerns have been raised by the Scottish Society for the Pr...
I suspect that with the oncoming of the curriculum for excellence at different stages and particularly the new Scottish Qualifications Authority exams, we will need to review the issue in the not-too-distant future.