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I will, therefore, do the usual politician thing and take some credit for putting the issue on the agenda, if not necessarily, thus far, on the statute book.The issue that we are discussing is important.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list the land management orders made since 31 March 2005, showing the date made, purpose of order, extent of order and the Sites of Special Scientific Interest or European wildlife sites affected.
Less than nine months ago, following Robert Foye's brutal attack on a young girl in my constituency, the cabinet secretary said:"We … want our communities to be kept safe from harm and from dangerous individuals … We must learn from mistakes".—Official Report, 26 March 2008; c 7310.The cabinet secretary has told us today that the process that he put in plac...
You previously mentioned asset management and so on, and you have expressed your ambition to broaden the bank’s activity into the provision of advice, investment arrangements, the management of third-party capital and so on.
That experience has been echoed, certainly among the people whom I have spoken to across Perth and Kinross and by other MSYPs, who have expressed similar concerns. Some schools do a very good job of implementing PSE and teaching pupils about world issues, but others are completely failing in their responsibility to deliver PSE properly.
My ministerial colleagues have written to the UK Government to express Scotland’s regret on that issue and to push the UK Government, perhaps in future free trade agreements, to increase its ambition in that respect.
As the head of the prosecution service, it is not for me to express a personal view. Lord Advocate, you have been very clear in your support for a time-limited pilot of single judge rape trials.
I am sure that you have heard concerns expressed about whether local government has the necessary resources, budget and expertise to deliver everything that is being asked of it, especially in the context of the latest budget, where we have seen a real-terms decline in the local government settlement.