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Over the last 10 years in Shetland alone, fleet turnover is down by 15 per cent, fleet numbers are down by 41 per cent and overall employment in the industry is down by 26 per cent. We have had enough pain.
I suspect that, when we come to a debate, members will be raising similar issues because the Scottish university for industry sits at the centre of those matters.I come with two specific backgrounds. I have had 26 years in the public sector, involved in education, training, lifelong learning, community learning and setting up the continuing education gatewa...
With all due respect to Danny Kelly, I do not think that the councillors in Helensburgh would fully understand that culture. We have 26 islands in the Lorne, mid-Argyll, Kintyre and Islay area.
Amendment 24, by agreement, withdrawn. Amendments 25 and 26 not moved. Amendment 51, in the name of Maureen Macmillan, is grouped with amendments 52, 1, 53, 2, 3, 27, 4, 54, 81, 82, 13 to 15, 46 and 16.
The committee's—or the Parliament's—legal powers to require witnesses or documents come under sections 23 to 26 of the Scotland Act 1998. The later sections are supplementary.
All adults who have been affected by adoption have needs that the adoption created. Adoption is not simply the transfer of a vulnerable child to a caring family; it has many repercussions.
The Executive note on the order refers to the hope that transferring concessions to a national agency will free up"a considerable amount of management time to develop and improve bus services."