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Members of the Public Petitions Committee will then be able to see our views that members have expressed about the petition and that can inform their decision.
There is no reason for the Scottish Office to have pursued the issue of the Parliament site at all. It had to produce a temporary site, which it has done very well, and I give credit where it is due.
Your pay settlement was renewed over Christmas after dialogue with the Government, as part of the normal regime. Did you express your views on class sizes in discussions on the teacher contract?
On resuming— Before we begin this afternoon, I am sure that members would like to welcome Senator Esperanza Aguirre, the President of the Senate of Spain, who is our guest today in the visitors' gallery. Applause.
I wonder whether I can take us a little further down the road along which we have been heading. There is a Gaelic expression, "Togar càrn mòr de chlachan beaga"—the big cairn is built of little stones.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many physiotherapists working in the NHS are aged (a) 21 to 30, (b) 31 to 40, (c) 41 to 50, (d) 51 to 60 and (e) over 60, also broken down by NHS board and expressed as a percentage of all NHS physiotherapists.
Terminology
Various terms are used when discussing prostitution. Some of these may be seen as expressing value judgements or supporting specific policy approaches.
I will try to set those out simply and in a few words. The Tax Credits Act 2002 introduces two tax credits: the child tax credit for families with children and the working tax credit for working households on low incomes.
My officials and officials of Enterprise Ayrshire and Locate in Scotland have been working closely with Volvo since the closure announcement in an attempt to secure a continuing engineering operation on the Irvine site.Locate in Scotland, Enterprise Ayrshire and the Scottish Executive have been acting as brokers between Volvo and potentially interested parties and have also been working with Volvo and other members of the Volvo Liaison...
Like other members who represent various parts of Edinburgh and the Lothians, I am familiar not only with many of the concerns that she has expressed about the Royal Victoria hospital site but with the many wider issues that she has raised about the provision of health services in Lothian, particularly with regard to...