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.
If the bell rings, we shall automatically suspend the meeting for the duration. We do not want the official reporters to miss any vital questions and answers.
It is worth saying in passing that a single funding stream will deal with half of the money that goes to GPs, compared with the present situation in which about 26 or 27 funding streams exist for the same amount of money.The formula is more sensitive to Scotland's needs.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
24 January 2005
It does not include the cost of senior officials in Transport Group, specialist officials or ministers as their time cannot be separately accounted for.
The measures are also partly about working politically—at a ministerial level—to examine the different portfolios. Mainstreaming is an issue—our officials work with officials in other departments on that.
That input was invaluable, as, given their experience, they had more expertise than all the officials put together. I also thank officials in the Scottish Executive.The paper includes examples of private legislation.
She went on to say:"I thought that the chance to do that was a basic element of what we call justice."—Official Report, 8 March 2007; c 33015.Indeed, it is, Presiding Officer.