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However, when we assess those areas' difficulties in comparison with the north-east and the northern isles, it is difficult not to argue that the latter have other different and perhaps more severe disadvantages. That only illustrates the point that I made in response to the earlier question that, in Scotland, it is extremely difficult to adapt the less fav...
I think we are getting the point.The First Minister claims that he wants to put an end to political point scoring and to have a serious debate about issues affecting the NHS in Scotland.
However—members may not want to pay attention to this point, but it is important for people who live in rural areas—average earnings are still lower than earnings elsewhere in Scotland.
There is no specific recommendation; it has been a question of setting out the points that might be considered to be relevant on either side and of inviting the committee to decide how it wishes to proceed.
To denigrate those people, as some of Mr McLetchie's recent utterings have done, misses the point. I denigrate no one, but the question about political activities relates only to the preceding five years and—amazingly—being a member of a political party is deemed not to be a political activity.The statistics in the written answer from Angus MacKay also show...
That is a small price to pay for seeing his and many other Tory heads roll in last week's election.On the serious point that he raised, my colleague Jack McConnell has been involved in that matter, and has commented on it in considerable detail in this chamber.
In the past three weeks, I have met people from all over Scotland who are campaigning to save their local hospitals and stop the centralisation of many of the services that they have enjoyed for years.As Mr Swinney rightly points out, many of our nursing homes are, unfortunately, unable to care for elderly and vulnerable people because of the current rates ...
However, as any loyal member of the coalition knows, one puts oneself at the disposal of the First Minister.To answer David Mundell's question, I do not think that we need to go into the detail. The important point that he made—I am sure that he knows at least part of the answer to his own question—concerns the impact assessment group, which is assessing th...
First—as the convener of the Justice 1 Committee, Alasdair Morgan, has pointed out—any application for civil legal aid requires a test of reasonableness and, further, a test of probable cause and, indeed, financial eligibility.