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Deputy Convener We move now to the appointment of a new deputy convener. Pauline McNeill was the deputy convener, but she has resigned from the committee.
Does Shona Robison accept the nomination? Yes. I welcome you to your new post and look forward to working with you.Sorry, I should have asked if there were any other nominations.
Does that accord with the views of teachers, pupils and other people whom we have heard evidence from: that what we encountered this year is not independent of the introduction of the new exam system? One cannot say that there will be no problems when a new system is introduced, a new body is created and a new IT programme is initiated.
There has to be some form of voluntary regulation to integrate home safety so that the kind of activity that should happen does happen.My personal experience, from living in my constituency, is that I have not noticed many home safety visits taking place. I am sure that the same is true of other members.
As committee members will recall, the financial framework for the European budget 2007-2013 predominated during our visit to Brussels earlier this year. Alyn Smith's letter is effectively a covering letter for a report prepared by Mr Böge—whom we met when we were in Brussels—charting a compromise position of an EU budget that is 1.07 per cent of EU gross na...
I have already been to the Northern Marine College in Shetland and talked to the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. I have an appointment to visit the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen and am in contact with Aquascot Ltd, which is a salmon-farming firm.
I have already been to the Northern Marine College in Shetland and talked to the Scottish Environmental Protection Agency. I have an appointment to visit the Marine Laboratory in Aberdeen and am in contact with Aquascot Ltd, which is a salmon-farming firm.
It is simply not true that the hands of judges are being tied. In fact, the new system not only improves the authority of the judge in the court, but ensures that the judge's sentence is properly carried out.