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On 17 January, Henry McLeish announced the membership of the new knowledge economy task force. Its first meeting took place on 26 January, and we expect an initial report by April of this year.
If members want to go into the details, we can deal with those later.As we have four new members since we began this exercise, I feel that members need to be fully aware of the points that have been made in the past if they are to be able to criticise the latest document properly.
Section 12A, however, undermines equal opportunities as it will be used to exclude disabled children from mainstream education.Amendment 26 seeks to rectify that situation by putting the child's best interests at the centre.
I certainly support a greater entrepreneurial spirit when that means vigorously searching for and pursuing new ways of doing things that improve services for patients and ensure that they get the best and quickest treatment possible from the NHS in Scotland.