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 cabinet secretary will be aware that a number of submissions to the Education and Culture Committee on the Education (Scotland) Bill have expressed serious concerns about the Scottish Government’s proposals.
On 20 May, following the UK general election, I wrote again to Mr Brokenshire as I had promised, expressing the views of this Parliament, as stated in our debate of 6 May.
The lack of a received view—even experts disagree on central philosophical questions—shifts the focus on to participants, who are encouraged to express their views and justify them with reasons.
She also says at the start of her answer: “It is not the role of the Commission to express a position on questions of internal organisation relating to the constitutional arrangements of a particular Member State.”
Their expertise will be used and shared across the prison estate, and I say on the record that we should all express our gratitude to those officers at Peterhead prison for the outstanding expertise that they built up.
Is she willing to meet me to discuss how these interests and concerns can be given the most constructive possible expression during the games? I am certainly happy to meet the member to discuss such matters.
He will be aware that NUS Scotland expressed a number of concerns about the code, in particular about the fact that staff and students will not be fully included in the decision-making process on the appointment and remuneration of principals.
The Government’s support for the concessionary scheme will remain solid, and I hope that his colleagues will feel able to express their complete support for the scheme rather than the abstention that we have seen so far.
This choosing and refusing has huge implications for society and the universe as a whole, so it is but natural to have a system of checks and balances in place in both the worlds. How we express our choice and liberty is what determines our value and status in both the worlds.