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.
It would be helpful to the committee examining housing matters to have somebody like the chairman of the Springburn tenants association as a non-voting member.
The survey pointed out that part of the increase was attributable to a new screening question on domestic violence, which increased the estimate of violent crime by approximately 10 per cent.
Oddly enough, the best safeguard is to ensure that only some people are entitled to be proxies. Some problems could be screened out before people are given authority.
Housing associations build up reserves and their tenants know that, at the end of the lifetime of their buildings, they will be able to get the repair work that is needed.
I put that in perspective by saying that installing 5 million condensing boilers saves about 600,000 tonnes of carbon per annum.We must face up to the challenge of improving the energy efficiency of all Scottish homes for the sake of our poorest tenants and residents and of the planet.
We are working closely with the judiciary to ensure that.The report is effectively a screening and flagging up of issues that the Scottish Prison Service will find useful when it determines how to work with someone who is in custody.
It is great to wear a football shirt that identifies a person with Man United or whoever, but when young people are sitting watching television or some other screen, it is not so great. Young people used to spend hours playing heidie against a wall or out in the garden or the street learning how to trap a ball properly.
That reminds me of an anecdote that John Farquhar Munro told me. When he recently visited an old folks' home in Portree, an elderly gentleman recognised him and said, "Oh, John Farquhar, is that you in here now?"