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In particular, I ask her to respond to the committee's request for her to come back to us at a later date on the conclusion of negotiations with the Scottish funding council.
They are deeply concerned about the competitiveness of our universities, especially if top-up fees in England are increased from £3,000. To date the Scottish Government has supported research activities in Scotland extremely well.
No, it is not my card, but you can see that it has on it the date of birth and an expiry date, which means that it would need to be updated from time to time.
For the Scottish Ambulance Service and for NHS 24, we have agreed slightly higher targets of 5 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. The date for achieving those targets is March 2009.
After all, here we are before the summer recess, setting out to Parliament our intention to legislate.The consultation will of course be open to contraction and convergence and other questions—the Government will carefully examine the evidence.
She is quite right—we are in the height of recession. Scotland had a deficit of 7.4 per cent as a percentage of gross domestic product, whereas the figure for the UK was 9.2 per cent.
I particularly welcome the wide range of issues that the committee has touched on in its conclusions and recommendations.There is no doubt that tourism faces challenges. The worldwide recession has had an impact, and there are reserved matters that constrain the competitiveness of our industry.