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What reassurance can the First Minister provide that the Government places a high value on a thriving journalism sector, and what support can the Government provide to local titles such as the Evening News and to the people who look likely to lose their jobs?
According to Audit Scotland this week, the Scottish Government is not just missing the original target; it is now missing the new, easier-to-reach target as well.
Engagements In this last First Minister’s question time of the year, I wish everyone—and I mean everyone—a happy Christmas and a very peaceful new year. To ask the First Minister what engagements he has planned for the rest of the day.
More seriously, it might like to spend some of its time defending its position on tolls on the Forth bridge and the new Queensferry crossing, which Arthur Midwinter suggested is under consideration by Labour’s cuts commission.
I, too, welcome Mohammed Sarwar to his new position, in which I am sure he will serve as well and as honourably as he did in his previous position.Obviously, we welcome jobs coming to Scotland.
We now have a rolling work programme to which, from time to time, new pieces of work are introduced. We think that that has gone pretty well this year.A few months ago, we published our corporate plan, which covers the period 2012 to 2015.
As we move away from the historical model for the single farm payment, there is a strong argument for considering a new means of redistributing the money among the UK regions.
We must recognise that, thankfully, sex offences against children are rare, although the new technologies that Helen Eadie mentioned present us with new challenges.