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I am pleased by the references to the visit by the First Minister to some of the projects that flowed from that and to the meeting of the Commission for Africa that was held in the Scottish Parliament on 16 May.
The committee is working on a report about relationships between the UK and the Nordic Council. A visit to Oslo is planned for December and an attempt is being made to arrange a meeting with the Baltic Council of Ministers.
If the issue is to be taken forward, an investigation would have to be on a similar scale to our investigation into special educational needs and would require substantial support from advisers as well as a substantial amount of committee time for visits and assessments of the provision that is currently out there.
For two months now, the Parliament has heard repeated assurances from the First Minister about his desire for a protocol with the Home Office to govern the operation of enforcement home visits, which are otherwise known as dawn raids.
Scottish Borders Council says that the funding that it received for free personal care was £3.5 million but the amount required was £7 million. That is an enormous difference and it must be impacting on the 28-day waiting list.
It would be as disastrous in Fife as it would be anywhere else. When will a new chairman and a new chief executive of Scottish Enterprise be appointed?