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They choose from among the seven bases according to what is available, but perhaps we have already covered the difficulties of express prorogation: it is debatable whether that would be a good idea.
We are clear that there are two issues, which Gordon Jackson expressed and delineated. We will follow up the serious allegation that your colleague made, which I will summarise.
That is fair enough, but we should also remember that it is an express part of the Education, Culture and Sport Committee's remit to examine the role of the Executive and its relationship with the SQA.
By closing the prisons, we are concentrating our effort on fewer sites. We will not be spreading our effort to the three sites that we will have closed and the one that we will have mothballed.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
8 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will use the Convention on the Protection of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions to promote Scottish cultural expression abroad.
We could make a submission, drawing attention to the submissions that we have received and asking the European Commission to take them into account. We have still got time to express our views in addition to those that are expressed in the submissions that have been made to us.
We announced the intention to remove the liable relatives rule at the time of the introduction of the pension credit, from which local authorities gain, so the proposal will be cost neutral.