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The member is genuinely reading from a different script from me. Nobody in the chamber, except Christine Grahame, recognises that description of the Scottish Borders.
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Date published:
30 September 2025
The Committee encourages the Scottish Government to re-visit reforms. At the same time, the Committee recognises the concerns expressed to it about further delay and the need to focus on outcomes rather than constantly re-visiting reforms.
In driving forward in performance terms, Scottish Water has recurrently stressed the importance of the regulatory function and of the benchmarks that it has compared itself against when driving efficiencies.
No.The most recent statistics show that under 12 per cent of school leavers from Scotland's most deprived areas are entering higher education, compared with 53 per cent of school leavers from our least deprived areas doing so.
I am also in favour of voting taking place over the weekend. Why do we vote on a Thursday? Except for historical precedent, there is no logical reason.
Traditional county boundaries also mean nothing, except in ceremonial terms, so "local" must refer to the boundaries that are defined in the Local Government etc (Scotland) Act 1994.