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However, children in some of these centres may have access to a teacher by other means such as a peripatetic teacher visiting on a regular basis or some other flexible teaching support service.
That is very helpful. You do not see a great need—except in exceptional circumstances—for inspection to go down to the level of the individual patient.
That needs to be done fairly quickly, because the latest paper that you sent to the Public Audit Committee said that the University of Highlands and Islands had 4 per cent of students from poorer backgrounds compared with Glasgow and Forth Valley, which have around 35 per cent.
Do you not think that, on the basis that we would reduce corporation tax, that percentage compared with the figure for the rest of the UK would increase?
This week, the parents council of Wick high school published an extensive catalogue of the deficiencies in the school building. Will the minister agree to visit Wick high school to hear the parents' concerns at first hand?
The Transport, Infrastructure and Climate Change Committee is looking into the issue and has visited the Forth bridge. It is important that we refer PE1064 to that committee and ask that it be dealt with as part of its in-depth inquiry.
However, if the criteria exclude a group of people who might be eligible if they were in the community by virtue of being able to obtain one of the additional benefits required, those individuals will not be able to go out, except if care organisation staff use an organisational blue badge.
I will add that it is the view across the parties—with one exception—and the Devolution (Further Powers) Committee, who have looked at this issue in detail, that an LCM should be produced.
Section 22(1) provides that the Scottish ministers may, by regulations, require a contracting authority to exclude an economic operator from a regulated procurement process—except for an EU-regulated procurement—if the operator or certain other persons have been convicted of an offence that is specified in the regulations.The regulations may also specify ev...