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For all those reasons—and various others that I will not go into now, for the sake of time—I think that it might be best to hold the petition over. We may not necessarily select it in our work programme, but I would like the committee to seek some more information and to consider the matter again once we have that information—perhaps in September, when we c...
It is up to local authorities to make the best use of the funds that are available to them through PPP schemes, the schools fund or the prudential borrowing regime.
Jackie Baillie's suggestion that we write to the Standards Commission to get the matter clarified might be the best way for us to get that question answered.
Changes include having more professional specialist skills, increasing the use of secondments from the public and private sectors, applying new technology effectively and working more closely with external stakeholders.
As I have made absolutely clear, not only will the graduate endowment not be used to help fund university tuition or research, but no other new fees will be introduced for that.
Those teachers are important for Scotland's schools and for our pupils.It is clear that Scotland's teachers have the best qualifications in the UK, and they will remain in that position.
Given that we have no other major inquiries planned for that period and that, to the best of my knowledge, we are not due to consider any bills, we will be able to devote much time to the inquiry.
I would go so far as to say that they need the power to lift someone who did not want to leave away from the gallery, with the help of colleagues.The best way of achieving that would be to give the clerk the power of removal, which he could delegate to the security staff.