This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The achievement of objective 1—to create communities where people can cycle safely—is dependent on the buy-in of transport and land use planners, engineers and elected members.
I noted with interest James Davidson’s comment about a real willingness to co-operate and buy in to the various priorities that were being discussed, and I am glad to hear that that is the case.
It is ridiculous that the highest fee in Scotland is £15,000 and the highest in England is £250,000. We could buy a lot of expertise and free up many planning officers with that.
Some are optimistic that they might open in June or July. One of the MSPs referred to buying tickets for something that had been put back until June this year, but I would be surprised if he gets to see the show in June this year, because the touring promoters were deciding in September or October whether to continue with their show next summer or to put it...
They were outside McDonald’s, campaigning against a closure there—or perhaps they were buying Nicola Sturgeon a Happy Meal. When it comes to standing up for their communities, they are nowhere to be seen.
In the final year of the pay deal, the uplift—taking into account the cost-of-living element and the staged increase—is likely to come to between 7 and 8 per cent. At a time when universities are receiving an increase of inflation minus 0.2 per cent, that clearly involves cost pressures.