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It is definitely a health issue and I was surprised to hear that it might not come to us. Being new to this game, I was not sure how that would affect progress in this committee.
The regulations before us today will restore that right to parents of children at local authority schools and will introduce a new right for parents of children at independent and grant-aided schools.The Scottish Executive issued guidance to local authorities in March 2002 to assist them in handling requests for access to records during the interim period u...
I attend the meeting as committee substitute for Irene Oldfather.I am new to the argument, although I accept that there are respectable arguments for and against postal voting.
The code plays a key part in determining how effective a new freedom of information regime will be, so we need to consider the issue.Rather than our simply taking written evidence, it would be worth appointing a reporter to examine the matter.
That contrasts favourably with increasing policing by recruiting new individuals, who have to be trained before they can assume their responsibilities, which entails delay in the provision of police officers and has cost implications.
We will not have reached our objectives if, within the near future, it is not possible for people to go via us or our website to find that kind of information. The task is not to create new information but to marshal what is already there.We have not looked at the impact on the economy of investing in particular skills, and our stakeholders and partners hav...
Here in Badenoch and Strathspey, the vast increase in housing development means that the number of new houses has already outweighed the population increase by three to one.
If the civil servants working for the minister genuinely believe that things that alter or have an on-going effect on our legal system are not of importance, the Scottish Executive should think about employing someone new. Enlargement and the European Council in Seville are matters that have a clear devolved content.
If the civil servants working for the minister genuinely believe that things that alter or have an on-going effect on our legal system are not of importance, the Scottish Executive should think about employing someone new. Enlargement and the European Council in Seville are matters that have a clear devolved content.
We will issue a survey early in the new year and will try, in presenting the findings of that survey, to tease out the views of back benchers and to get different perspectives from the various political groups.