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I do not want the committee to become a back door method by which MSPs get items on to committee agendas. There are all sorts of ways that MSPs can raise issues legitimately.
Why is it possible for the United Kingdom Government and the National Assembly for Wales to get their acts together but not for the Scottish Executive to manage to do so?
I am not sure that old-age pensioners around Scotland will be satisfied with the knowledge that they are getting a 73p correlation from the First Minister.I know that the First Minister does not excel at controlling budgets, but this is his budget.
How will you defend that position if it is not the Welsh who ask for more money, but the new devolved body in London? The clear implication of everything that you have said is that we are dead lucky and are somehow managing to get something under the counter.
How will you defend that position if it is not the Welsh who ask for more money, but the new devolved body in London? The clear implication of everything that you have said is that we are dead lucky and are somehow managing to get something under the counter.
That is a positive thing; civil servants should get out and see the world.Where a local authority has transferred its stock, it should get development funding, subject to having the capacity and having robust housing strategies.