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I intend to raise those matters with the new chair of the SQA and I intend that the SQA should consider those issues as part of the action plan that I have asked it to publish.
We made an extremely good team, got through a colossal amount of work, for which everyone should be commended, and retained a good atmosphere and humour.I am sorry to have to say goodbye in this fashion; however, nothing stays the same. Next week you will have a new member as well as a new convener, and I am sure that you will afford your new convener the same good humour and courtesy that you have afforded me.
Scottish ParliamentSubordinate Legislation CommitteeTuesday 28 February 2006 The Convener opened the meeting at 10:31 I welcome members to the seventh meeting in 2006 of the Subordinate Legislation Committee. I also welcome Andy Proudfoot, a new member of our clerking team. This is our last meeting with Ruth Cooper for a while and I am sure that we all wish her well in the next weeks and perhaps months in getting to grips with what I am sure will be the happy new member of her family.I have received apologies from Adam Ingram, Gordon Jackson, Stewart Maxwell and Jamie Stone.
Under the watchful eye of our former deputy convener, Malcolm Chisholm, I invite nominations for the new deputy convener. I nominate Margaret Jamieson.
In particular, there will be a 70 per cent increase in our spend on public transport over a three-year period. A new ScotRail franchise, new trains, platform lengthening, new rail lines, better concessionary fares—all of those are very important.
In such cases, the community had relatively wide discretion in the specifications of the new building and I can think of two new community halls that have biomass space heating as a consequence of that.Conversely, in the same area, a brand new high school was built three years...