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Traffic Speed Reduction (Cyclist Safety) Figures released this week show an increase in cyclists’ deaths and injuries on our streets. Given that speed kills, what new, world-leading action will the Government take to reduce motor vehicle speed and deliver safer streets?
I understand from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that laundry supplies were affected by a particularly busy period over the new year. The board has already apologised—I echo that apology—and given assurances that the issue has been resolved.
Under agenda item 1 we welcome our new member, Tom Mason. He joins us to replace Alexander Stewart, whom I thank for all his hard work on the committee.
In 2008-09, the Government provided a grant of £150,000 to improve the educational facilities. That was spent mainly on a new educational video, which was launched recently.
I agree about the magic of Caithness.I welcome the excellent new facilities at the Eden Court theatre and Culloden battlefield, both of which I visited last week.
We conducted the exercise in late 2016 and early 2017 and got the returns from local government—you will appreciate that we are at the mercy of the information that we receive from local government. Those are the latest figures. SPT contracts for a number of local authorities.
With that, there comes a professional self-confidence and a view that services are being evaluated dispassionately and separately from the quality of the day-to-day activities that people undertake. You said that 26 out of the 32 councils have completed the process.
The committee’s focus is on deciding whether we need new legislation. You have both made a powerful case this morning as to why you think we should proceed.
We have been making a recommendation for a number of years now about the need to have that additional piece of the jigsaw in producing a balance sheet for Scotland. In our latest report on managing the new financial powers, which was published in March 2017, we again made that recommendation, but we highlighted that ...