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It has responded again and, in fairness, I think that the latest response is much better. It goes a long way to persuading me that section 7(2) of the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2000 does not require commencement proceedings.
Joint working groups could perhaps be established among authorities without requiring a new bureaucracy. That sort of arrangement can work on a voluntary basis.
John Scott is tempting me with a little mention of Arran—he is trying to get me onside. I regret not having been able to visit the farmers market here in the Parliament last night, because of other business.
That will not take long.I draw the First Minister's attention to the fact that, today, Tony Blair is making one of his rare visits to Scotland—indeed, they are almost as rare as the First Minister's visits to hospitals.
A couple of weekends ago, I visited Florence to renew my acquaintance with art treasures that I saw first as a schoolgirl, such as the Duomo, the churches of San Marco and San Lorenzo, and the statue of David in the Accademia gallery.
It is important that we do not forget the people at the centre of the crisis—the 26 seriously ill people from all over Scotland who are on the heart transplant waiting list and the more than 200 people who have received their heart transplant and now depend on the Glasgow unit for post-operative care and long-term monitoring.The situation first came to publ...
Joined-up working certainly might have taken place between the two unions, but I am not sure whether what they said was wholly accurate. My authority is building 26new schools under the PPP arrangements.