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There appears to be a conflict between what we have just heard in question time and what the Minister for Children and Education said at column 30 of yesterday's Official Report. I ask for your advice on what procedure should be followed by the chamber if a minister appears to have misled it.
Mr Rumbles must know from his close alliance and contact with council officials that there has not been a real cut in the budget of Aberdeenshire Council.
We must also consider whether the committee should take evidence from the Minister for Transport and the Environment and relevant Executive officials. Finally, we must decide on the format of the committee's report to the Finance Committee.Those are the decision areas that we must consider and agree upon.
Admittedly, he qualified that by saying that the Executive would hold to that cost"to the best of our ability"—Official Report, 17 June 1999; Vol 1, c 523.but that ability is not great.We now hear the figure of £230 million being bandied about.
Convener, could you, with Martin and Keith, report back next week with suggestions of organisations that we should visit officially, and of members who might be interested in undertaking those visits?
"I can assure the chamber that an Administration or Government that tried to bully or to over-influence the broadcasting process would be open to very considerable criticism."—Official Report, 20 January 2000; Vol 4, c 359.
We will ask the Executive to consider it, in terms of the points raised about the complaints system, bearing in mind that with the advent of clinical governance it will be a very important issue. We should send a copy of the Official Report of this discussion to the Executive so that it can see what our thinking on the matter is.
I expect Scottish Enterprise to meet its budget targets."—Official Report, 19 January 2006; c 22555.When the First Minister made that statement, you were still projecting a £77 million overspend.