This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
One major change that affects countries such as Britain and Scotland is in the view of traditional carriers that efficiency is best gained through the creation of hub-and-spoke arrangements rather than by having a plethora of point-to-point arrangements and strategies.
I am not suggesting that the justice budget is a flat-line budget; I am suggesting that we have an opportunity to review, year on year, how best we can use those resources. Increases are available to us and we must consider where some of the pressure points will be in the future.
That is the clear objective that we have set.It would be better if, instead of talking about a health service that exists elsewhere, Mr McLetchie would address the health service in Scotland.
However, children and young people do not participate in sport at present, and school is the best starting point. One should not cure a bottleneck in order to create another.