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.
It is quite difficult at the moment, because different manufacturers have different databases, so we have to check multiple databases when a dog comes in to figure out whether the dog’s details are up to date. We then find that the details are not up to date, so again we cannot prove ownership.
That work is important to us and we will make sure that it is properly resourced, but I am not sure that I can give you a date by which we will definitely be doing £50 million or £100 million of third-party capital.
It got tighter and tighter each year, so it became a game of, “What can you spend by the cut-off date?” rather than, “What would you spend it on to get the best strategic outcome?”
We must ensure that the Scottish Government sets a date by which it must look again at the figure—that was the point of linking it to the retail price index.
A major function of the Scottish Law Commission is to keep the law up to date, and it was thought that trust law was an area that was crying out for fairly major updating.
However, as Paul Gray, the former chief executive of NHS Scotland, said, the crisis in our NHS, including in dentistry, was always coming—Covid just hastened the date. The Government talks in lofty tones about protecting our NHS from privatisation.
In the local IJB, I have heard a request for information that is more up to date, because the process in itself can be considerably out of date in terms of data capture—sometimes by a year or 18 months.
I have already talked about the lawfulness of the bill, the Presiding Officer’s statement and the discussions that we have had to date about our human rights obligations.