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.
However, this is not the place in which to debate such matters, as they will be decided at Westminster."—Official Report, 25 September 2003; c 2043.That is what I said.
In general, we should work through the Executive and our department. I suggest that those officials should sit around the official policy tables with the DWP or the Department for Education and Skills.
In general, we should work through the Executive and our department. I suggest that those officials should sit around the official policy tables with the DWP or the Department for Education and Skills.
That—along with the comments that were made by an enterprise agency official yesterday—is useful in capturing the nub of one of the problems that we face.
I ask the minister not only to work through official channels—the department that she oversees, health boards and trusts—but to spread the agenda more widely.
The process has not been easy; many discussions were needed along the way, including discussions with RSPB Scotland when hen harriers were discovered on the site, but the community group has worked very well.