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We received scant evidence about the form it takes and its prevalence. When the committee visited Leith Academy, we found that any stigma around school meals attached not to those who receive free meals, but to eating meals in general.
You said that you have difficulty in getting ministers to pay the rates that you think your members deserve to make their pay comparable with that in the private sector.
That is summed up in the fact that only 10 paragraphs of the copy of the First Minister's statement are devoted to the health service, compared with the 11 paragraphs that are devoted to the Gaelic language.
Members might be aware from press reports of a recent case in the House of Lords—R v A—which concerned the ECHR compatibility of comparable English provisions in section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act 1999.
It is disingenuous for the Chancellor of the Exchequer to say that he has to compare Peterhead with other projects, which are nowhere near as far down the road.
There are underlying issues in the population of the Highlands and Islands that mirror those in the population of Scotland as a whole, but there are some distinctive features about the demographics of the Highlands and Islands, among the most significant of which is the shortage of young people in the important 18-to-30 age range. Compared to the rest of Sc...