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I am sure that members of the committee in particular will welcome my response to the issues that they raised.I move amendment 26. We support amendment 26, which is sensible.
The single pension would be higher by £26 a week if the Tories had not broken that link—or if new Labour had restored it—so we will not be taking any lessons from the Tories on pensions.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
4 December 2006
If we hear the official position on 1 May, it would be quite useful to slot in the other side of the coin on 8 May: the Scottish Prison Officers Association or any other groups that we want to hear.
I intend that the grant will be payable to authorities under a new Financial Assistance Order which is due to come into force on 26 March 2002.I am also aware that authorities will have to meet additional costs in 2002-03.
I join John Farquhar Munro in complimenting the schools that are being developed. I have visited a Gaelic unit in a primary school in Oban and I have visited the new Gaelic school in Glasgow.
Like Michael Matheson, I think that the visits are important. However, no matter what issue we are dealing with, whenever we go on a fact-finding visit, the organisations that we visit tend to orchestrate the visit carefully so that the...