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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-19542 by Jackie Baillie on 26 November 2001, what the breakdown was of the #70,000 spent on establishing Communities Scotland, including payments to outside consultants.
To ask the Scottish Executive how local authorities who are not members of CoSLA are to be represented in the new Scottish negotiating committee for teachers. he constitution for the Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers formed part of the agreement on teachers' conditions of service (which was endorsed by representatives of all local authorities on 26 January).
The revised constitution, which was the subject of extensive consultation, is integral, and it seems perfectly reasonable to enact the provisions at as early a date as practicable, to get on with the new job and to allow the GTC to get on with its job as soon as possible.
If the care standards will be scrutinised by this committee and the lead committee, that is as good as it will get. I have no criticism about that.I do not know whether the Executive can lodge an amendment between now and the start of stage 3.
To pick up on John Home Robertson's point, I believe that the next agriculture and fisheries council will be on 21 or 26 November—I cannot remember the date off the top of my head.