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To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of males employed by it have worked part-time, expressed also as a percentage of its total workforce, in each year since 1999.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
18 October 2001
An NHS board would be expected to take into consideration all relevant factors, including the range of views expressed in any consultation and any specific guidance on a particular subject.
While the delegation was here, the parliamentary service commissioner expressed interest in developing further the pairing and twinning of members after the election.
I thought that we intended to listen to how committees go about their consideration and to give advice if they head off into cul de sacs. Written advice is sent to all the committees.
I think that that point was made in our discussion in October; I will return to it.I want to deal with another issue that relates to Scottish legal aid payments. Concern was expressed that considerable Executive expenditure might be involved, but I assure the committee that that will not be the case.
Can I respectfully—and with the respect that all members of Parliament should express towards the Presiding Officer—ask you what mechanisms there are for the Opposition to hold the Executive to account when it disobeys the will of Parliament, as was clearly expressed on Thursday?
I was about to say what I thought about that, but decided that, as convener, I should wait for everyone to express their views. I am glad that we are all speaking as one on this issue.