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I agree whole-heartedly with John Swinney that this summer's budget invested an amount of money in Scottish public services that will make a real difference to Scotland.
Advice Services (PE396) We have received a petition from Mr Nick Fletcher, which calls on the Scottish Parliament to take the necessary steps to ensure that the citizens of Scotland continue to have access to free and independent advice services.
That could mean, for example, examining the ways in which local enterprise companies, health boards, local authorities and others deliver the kind of services that require them to act in concert rather than in silos.
Will he assure me that the highest importance will be given to delivering joined-up government to ensure that some of our most vulnerable women and children are given the best possible service not only by the justice system but by the health, education, housing and social work services and that the attitudes that cau...
There was an almost universal view that we needed to ensure that we retained the integrity of CalMac services. We had been told by the Commission that it did not see how we could meet the competition rules without splitting the services up into separate bundles.
We should encourage equality organisations to contact service committees directly. We have been taking all the evidence on equality issues and collating it for the service committees.