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To assist us with our scrutiny of the bill's financial memorandum, we have with us two witnesses from Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education: Graham Donaldson is senior chief inspector, and Stuart Robinson is head of corporate services. I welcome them both to the committee.
Members can see that reports on Historic Scotland, local economic forums and business support services will be published soon. Various items are coming up.
They also have a copy of the petition, a letter on relocation issues written to the Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services on behalf of the committee on 17 September, and his reply of 13 October.
I thought that local authorities already had an input into the purchase of services and so on. There are seven special schools in Scotland that are grant-maintained centrally.
Would it be possible to identify local nursery providers who could offer child care services? People would have to make their own arrangements to pay for that, but it would be good to be able to give them an idea of the services available in the vicinity of the Parliament.
The alternative would be for Parliament to set up its own independent expert reporter service, but I think that Parliament would face the same problems because often it is access to the reporters that is important.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of, or has been involved in, the carrying out of abductions in Scotland by foreign secret services. No. S2W-22749
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Date answered:
22 September 2004