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Convener, perhaps I could ask the Government and appropriate officials to review the councils’ submissions and reply to the committee with their considerations.
I do not know how the gesture that you just made will be reported in the Official Report, but if you were caught on camera, people will get the flavour of it.
However, I do not believe, from my experience through the official mechanism and my personal contacts, that the numbers in the BMA are anywhere close to 50:50.
Can I press some of the others on Angela O’Hagan’s point that the 12 per cent cut in the public sector—if we assume that that is more or less what we are looking at—“is not necessarily the only way to address some of the wider economic difficulties”?—Official Report, Equal Opportunities Committee, 23 March 2010; c 1560.
I am keen to ensure equity of treatment and have asked my officials to analyse the basis of the DTI's announcement in that respect and to make appropriate representations.
The deep tragedy is that we got a letter about it after the cabinet secretary had already announced it to the Scottish Trades Union Congress. Of course, officials knew that that was inappropriate and wrong—it was entirely deliberate, cavalier and dishonest—yet we are told that the official who was drawing up the term...
At a time when the bonus culture has been thoroughly discredited, why should we pay well-paid public officials between 35 per cent and 50 per cent of their already very generous salaries as a bonus?
Before we move to the formal procedure on the motion at item 7, members may ask questions of the Minister for Community Safety and his officials. I welcome the new officials who have made their way to their positions discreetly and silently.
I know that a lot of work is being carried out locally and through the official level task force; in fact, I think that the task force is meeting today to discuss the matter between departments.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2015
A meeting between Scottish Government officials and the Improvement Service was held on 11 November 2014 to explore Improvement Service activities in this area and Scottish Government activities, including the Financial Health Service.