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Figures from June showed that emergency medicine consultancy had a vacancy rate of 26.3 per cent in NHS Grampian compared with a vacancy rate of 9.7 per cent in Scotland as a whole—it was almost three times that level.
The Scottish Parliament is an interesting Parliament, in that you have an enhanced committee system compared with a lot of other Westminster-model Parliaments.
To ask the Scottish Executive what consultation it expects education authorities to undertake prior to applying for the exceptional closure of a school. The expectation is that authorities will have consulted parents or parent representatives at the school.
That is my first thought.Secondly, I would like to give the committee a perspective of Channel 4 and how it operates. Channel 4 is often compared to the BBC, which is the main public broadcaster in the UK.
Over the past 14 or 15 years, because of the commitment from West Lothian Council, the schools have been outperforming their comparators; they are doing so in all except one category at present.
Before I do that, I thank those who gave evidence to the committee and the National Galleries of Scotland staff who accommodated a visit and gave us such an interesting tour of the Scottish art collection.
I will say two things in response to Christina McKelvie’s question. First, when I visited Dalzell on 4 February, I instructed that a detailed energy analysis be carried out.