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I thank the First Minister for his response although, unfortunately, given where it comes from, it has all the ringing conviction of me expressing a desire to enter the Miss World contest.
I hope that the Parliament shares those sentiments. We express our sincere condolences to his wife and family and to his enormous number of friends, many of whom were represented at the funeral yesterday.
We know which individuals are concerned, although we do not know who they are or whom they represent. They have expressed extreme contrition over this and claim that they were not directly responsible.
That sympathy is echoed by the editorial stance of such papers as the Daily Record, the Sunday Mail and The Express, which are not commonly known for supporting a Conservative position.
Waste recycling has increased from 17.6 per cent in 2005 to 24.7 per cent in 2006, with the amount of biodegradable waste that is sent to landfill sites coming close to the Executive's target for 2005-06.
We will deal with the vexed question of questions being asked of non-departmental public bodies. Some concern has been expressed by the Parliament's research and information group about the extent to which answers that might be in the public interest and which members might want in the public domain are not adequately placed there when members are referred ...
He can blame whom he likes, but is it not the truth that the Lib-Lab pact wants to blur responsibility so that it can take the credit for everything and the blame for nothing?