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Official Report Meeting date: 13 June 2002

Plenary, 13 Jun 2002

We are delivering results for parents, pupils and teachers. I visited one of the new schools in Glasgow.

Official Report Meeting date: 9 January 2001

Local Government Committee, 09 Jan 2001

We believe that it is not satisfactory to call a service excellent and to charge considerably more for it, while offering a lesser standard of inspection.Inspectors must be familiar with the resources that they visit. To be absolutely frank, when I visit a brand new resource that I have not seen before, it takes two or three visits before I get under the surface.

Official Report Meeting date: 9 November 2000

Plenary, 09 Nov 2000

I invited the deputy minister's predecessor, Rhona Brankin, to visit those projects and I extend that invitation to the new deputy minister.

Official Report Meeting date: 8 June 2000

Plenary, 08 Jun 2000

Users and carers were members of the national steering group and they conducted their own roadshows to bring out views and opinions. I took part in some of the visits and attended some of the conferences.

Official Report Meeting date: 7 September 2005

Plenary, 07 Sep 2005

Leaving aside Ireland for the moment—I will come back to it—let us look at corporation tax rates in some of the Opposition's favourite countries to cite. Finland's rate is 26 per cent, Austria's is 25 per cent, Norway's is 28 per cent, Belgium's is 34 per cent and Germany's is 38 per cent.

Official Report Meeting date: 21 April 2004

Plenary, 21 Apr 2004

We should consider particularly the situation in the west end of Glasgow where land is at a premium—any tiny site there gets built upon.

Official Report Meeting date: 30 January 2002

Plenary, 30 Jan 2002

I am sure that he has read my amendment to the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Bill, which refers to direct loss and which follows precisely the argument that he has just made.

Official Report Meeting date: 27 March 2003

Plenary, 27 Mar 2003

For example, I think that the Eaga Partnership does that when its staff visit people for the central heating programme.

Official Report Meeting date: 7 February 2007

Plenary, 07 Feb 2007

Perhaps more than other features, it has defined modern Scotland itself. Jamie Stone outlined precisely when modern Scotland dates back to—1822, when my erstwhile constituent, Sir Walter Scott, was the master of ceremonies during the visit to Edinburgh of George IV.

Official Report Meeting date: 27 September 2005

Finance Committee, 27 Sep 2005

We are still working with Audit Scotland on the precise shape, but it will need to be in place by the end of the year.

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