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.
The draft budget maintains funding for core priorities—for example, the new Forth crossing, the new south Glasgow hospitals project and the schools building programme.
I know that the cabinet secretary has initiated a new discussion about routes into teaching and how we undertake professional training of new recruits.
Motion moved, That the Parliament agrees that consideration of the Criminal Justice and Licensing (Scotland) Bill at Stage 2 be completed by 26 March 2010.—Bruce Crawford. Motion agreed to.
That is part of the necessary process of dialogue that the Government has to go through when it is reviewing such material. In preparing for the new academic year, local authorities should follow the existing guidance when considering those questions.
Our first agenda item is a declaration of interests from a new member. I welcome to the committee Emma Roddick MSP and invite her to declare any interests that are relevant to her role on the committee.
Two members, Maggie Chapman and Paul O’Kane, are joining us remotely. We also have two new members of our committee. I thank Meghan Gallacher and Annie Wells for their contributions during their time as committee members.
I welcome George Adam, John Mason and Evelyn Tweed, who are joining us as new members of the committee to replace Ruth Maguire, Ben Macpherson and Michelle Thomson.