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.
You have given us details of 554 adult female fine default receptions by length of sentence. With the exception of 26 of those, the sentences were between seven and 14 days.
The first round awarded £29 million over three years to 13 local authorities. We have received 26 applications for the second round, which we will announce shortly.We have put in place a framework for regional transport partnerships, following the consultation that we have had.
In the NHS in Tayside, for example, underspends within the primary care trust allowed funds to be transferred to the acute trust. That shows the benefits that co-operative working can bring to management of NHS finances.
Amendment 29, in my name, seeks to provide a mechanism for a speedy management transfer in such situations.Again, I am not sure that I follow all the implications of the minister's amendments, which are fairly complex.
If a young person or a mature student has undertaken a higher national diploma at a college and wants to transfer to a university, will there be any cost?
However, where there is a gap, the provisions in amendment 30 will fill in that gap. Amendment 25 agreed to. Amendment 26 moved—Mrs Mary Mulligan—and agreed to.
I support what Jeremy Purvis said about UK job transfers. I suggest that a sensible connection could be made with Gordon Brown's announcement—I think that it was around last November—about the transfer of 20,000 civil service jobs out of London.