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Given all that, I invite members to express their views on the issue and how we should respond to the Dumfries and district trades union council petition.
I do not know the prognosis for the outcome of that debate—I missed that bit of the discussion—but real anxiety and worry was expressed about that. The Hungarian Government and others have moved to the right, and whether they want to preserve the social policy that we want in procurement is unknown at this stage.
The Local Government and Communities Committee expressed similar frustration. As time goes on, we will be in a better position to measure single outcome agreements from one year to another, which we have not been able to do in the past.
While in 2000, 48% of the Scottish population said that sexual relations between two adults of the same sex is ‘always wrong’, only 18% of people in Scotland expressed this view in 20151Scottish Government. (2016, September 30).
The report calls on the Department for Work and Pensions to conduct research to understand the gendered impact of the design of universal credit and adds the committee’s voice to the call, which many of us support, for the extension of the £20 increase in the universal credit allowance beyond the end of March.
Talking about timetables, I gently point out that universal credit was first announced in 2010; its introduction is now forecast to be completed seven years after the originally intended date of 2017.
The group has proceeded in a positive way—to give credit where credit is due, the SQA’s response to the criticism about its communications has been a good one. 12:00 Larry Flanagan made a critical point about what we are seeing in relation to professional judgment and how schools have conducted their way through ...