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.
Although I appreciate that no one wants a situation in which primary legislation is needed to give these particular powers to any new authority that might be created, these powers are fairly draconian and I would welcome some balance.
There is a danger that, if we continually legislate for new things and make new things happen, we will never have the time to bed down the new things that we are currently doing and that might be shown to work.It is a case of things' becoming fashionable.
Bullying was a sufficient offence in itself and had to be dealt with in an inimitable way.The new paragraphs that the Executive is proposing to include in section 26 of the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc.
Cumbernauld is the most extreme example as 70 per cent of homes in some tower blocks are owner-occupied. In the second round of the new housing partnership, resources were provided to authorities to deal with that problem.In the latest round of new housing partnerships the Government made it clear that new housing partnership money could not be used to provide grants to owners.
I consider that all the issues that you have raised today have been discussed in the Parliament. I have tried to find something new in what you have said and I would welcome your clarification of the two or three things that are absolutely new and which the Parliament did not consider.