This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Why should we accept as applications telephone calls, personal visits and conversations? We appreciate the arguments for freedom of information requests to be in writing or in electronic format.
In many ways, gender proofing budgets is more complex than I had anticipated. Many of you will know that I visited Canada in the summer. Canada is a leading country in this area and I was able to study the situation in depth when I was there.
If we accept that, we are devaluing the role that children and young people have when they make representations to people such as ourselves. When they come to visit us at surgeries, when they lobby us on various issues and when they speak to organisations, they have some influence, although they do not have as much influence as I would like them to have or ...
As a list member who has to get around the 10 constituencies in Central Scotland, I know that it is very much easier to visit places with an effective station and railway line, such as Polmont, Falkirk and Croy, which serves Cumbernauld.
Such a situation was always a possibility for anyone visiting a school who had a friendly face and was someone in whom children thought they could confide.
That could include the owners of fisheries, local or visiting anglers and anybody who has"an interest in fishing for or taking salmon"on the river.Checks and balances on the ability of boards to introduce regulations under existing legislation are already in place.
We are making efforts to attract people from ethnic minorities into the service by visiting universities and so on. We want to get across the message that the Crown Office and the procurator fiscal service welcome candidates from ethnic minorities.If the committee would like me to go into any of those issues in more detail, I will be happy to oblige.