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It strikes me that, if the Government is increasing investment—as it says it is and as I believe it is—it is not necessarily getting the credit for that, as it is not clear in the budget headings how much of the money is being spent on active travel.
This is probably one of the most positive reports that I have seen, and it is to SDS’s credit that the Auditor General has been so fulsome in her praise of what it has achieved—that is excellent.
There have been no discussions with the UK Government following the Scottish Executives decision, announced on 26 March, that de-regulation of community pharmacy control of entry arrangements was not the way forward for Scotland.
The curriculum for excellence, which contains the expressive arts as a core part of its function, is fantastic, and it is important to us that we work closely with the education sector to support the delivery of the curriculum.
We believe that we should take the right amount of time and have the right resources for the process, and we wanted to express the concern that there should not be a sense of being rushed.
There is something to be gained by bringing the voluntary sector and, where appropriate, the private sector into those discussions.In Scotland, we do not have a single, powerful place where knowledge and understanding can be shared in a way that is tolerant to different points of view and allows different experiences to be expressed but does so with a degre...
I think that it is— So the directors of HR and finance would be yours, and the SPA would be—to use your expression—the intelligent customer. I am being naughty, but I mean that the balance would shift.