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 conclusion of the consultation was that no comparable condition is on the horizon; a conclusion that was confirmed in oral evidence to the committee.
Any negativity that I conveyed when I compared St Andrew's day with other days arose from comparing it with the Queen's jubilee holiday and a June holiday.
In particular, it said that the outcomes of the stable, long-term fostering that we are trying to encourage through the permanence order may be comparable to the outcomes of adoption. That may well be right.
We want to promote consistency and not to give ourselves additional problems by not excepting something that we had intended to except, and which it would have been an oversight not to except—if you see what I mean.I recognise the argument behind what John Scott is saying in a...
The organisations that we have chosen to visit have all been chosen for practical reasons, such as the time available to us and the convenience of getting to them, with the possible exception of HMP Peterhead, which we could visit as time permits.