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Part 2 does not extend our powers: it underpins our current activity. The new programme of performance inspection that ministers have tasked the new agency with undertaking replicates the powers in the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to ensure that our current activity is adequately underpinned.
Will targets that have to be met within a specific timeframe be set, so as to gauge the success, or otherwise, of this latest initiative to improve the educational performance of children in care?
I am sure that the secretary of state will read all the documents.Is the First Minister aware that among the revelations in the latest files was the news that the Prime Minister in the 1970s—Mr Heath—wanted to give Scotland control over our share of the £160 billion of oil revenues that have flowed to London in the t...
I will not go through all the detail, but you can see the impact on business starts; account and client-managed companies; the major industry projects; new ITI research projects; new proof of concept fund projects; and new R and D plus activities.