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We all recognise that things were done—to coin the phrase—“at pace”, but nonetheless I presume that there needs to be some understanding of why one provider got so much and another got a different amount, and why some things were given greater priority in the allocation of resources than other things.
When we did an audit in 2021 to look at the five-year period from 2016 to 2021, we found that the decline was 26 per cent. The decline is accelerating year on year.
It is no surprise that the visitnorway.com website boasts of 44 national parks. Norway is four times the size of Scotland, so that is fair enough, but I repeat that it has 44 national parks.
Caibideil 1: Taic do dh’Albais Inbhe na h-Albais 95. Tha reachdas ann an earrainn 26 airson inbhe na h-Albais. Tha aithris ann am fo-earrainn (1) a tha ag ràdh gu bheil inbhe oifigeil aig Albais ann an Alba agus sin air a stèidheachadh san lagh tro chumhaichean a’ Bhile a tha a’ fàgail uallaichean air Ministearan na h-Alba agus daoine eile.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 December 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will report on the outcome of the recent British-Irish Council Summit. On 26 November 2012, the nineteenth meeting of the British-Irish Council was held in Cardiff, Wales.
It needs to be recognised that, as I understand it, those employees had been transferred under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as part of the previous contract for Stow College.
It is entirely appropriate for the Scottish Parliament to have an interest in ensuring not just that the amounts of money being recorded and therefore transferred to Scotland are right, but that Scottish taxpayers are being treated according to the same standards of customer care as UK taxpayers as a whole and that tax evasion and fraud in Scotland are bein...
The reports in the media suggest that, at NHS Tayside, the trustees felt obliged, given the tenor of the meeting, to make that transfer. Do you think that there is a failure of governance there?