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I was interested in a recent leader by Thomas Friedman in The New York Times about why the next best thing will always come out of America, which I am sure went down well in New York.
The Commission is pushing quite strongly for at least part of the funding in the new period—not only in Scotland but elsewhere—to be used innovatively, not just to add to the budgets of domestic policy organisations but to try new things.
Parliamentary Audit Committees (Visits) Item 6 is consideration of a draft submission to the conveners liaison group seeking approval for the members of the Audit Committee to undertake visits to their fellow committees in London, Belfast and Cardiff.
I move that we ask for additional written evidence and take no further oral evidence. I am struck by the new-found resistance to the taking of oral evidence since the new year.
As has been mentioned, the Minister for Justice, Cathy Jamieson, lodged a Sewel motion on the Civil Partnership Bill on 26 April. The Justice 1 Committee will consider the motion and take oral evidence on it.
I hope that some of it will be dealt with by the new building standards. It is very difficult to see how new buildings are not accessible because they are required to be, and they will be even more accessible under the guidance that will be introduced in 2007.
For example, is he aware that according to the Executive's latest figures, in secondary schools in the Falkirk area, 47 per cent of first-year maths classes and 55 per cent of second-year maths classes have 30 or more pupils?