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While there, he explicitly said that the SNP was setting money aside to pay for the extra 1,000 police officers—and that that was new money and extra officers and not a play on words.
Against that background, how we make a transition from the stark choices that we face now to a new economy and new ways of delivering public services becomes important.It is interesting that the increase in unemployment in the private sector has not been what we expected.
I thank the minister for her answer and welcome her to her new role.The guidance on changes to EMA that the Government issued to local authorities in the summer states:“The removal of ... bonus payments will reduce expenditure but will not, in itself, bring expenditure into line with the available budget.”The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Lea...
We will continue to keep in close contact with COSLA and local authorities on the issue but, at this stage, there is no intention to introduce new or additional reporting burdens on local authorities.
I thank her very much for her work, and wish her good luck in her new committee. I am sure that Jane Williams will carry on that successful record of support to the committee.We now move into private session.10:52 Meeting continued in private until 11:40.
Further, the Health and Sport Committee has undertaken an extensive pathways into sport inquiry; there is continuing debate and engagement with the Government in relation to its target of delivering two hours of physical exercise a week in primary schools; and a strategy review is being undertaken by sportscotland and local authorities in relation to the development of the school estate and links that might be made to opportunities for new...
Does the First Minister agree with his new Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning, who said that the debate on school education should be completely shorn of ideological prejudice and should encourage much more diversity in school management?
At the moment, my constituents in Midlothian, where most of the new stations on the Waverley line will be situated, do not have access to a local railway service and many are concerned by the Scottish Government's recent silence on the subject.
(S3O-6785) The Dumbarton family planning and well woman clinic will now be part of a new integrated sexual health service based at the Vale of Leven hospital in Alexandria.