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Why do people see in the papers this morning only spin and counter-spin, when the Governments should be adopting a united front to tackling the recession? When will our First Minister change how we go about doing business?
The fear might be that the UK would be in recession as well, so its GDP might be impacted as well as Scotland’s, whereas the fiscal framework’s parameters are about the relative position between the UK and Scotland.
I do not pretend in any way, shape or form to have kept up to date with the media reports or with the Emma Caldwell case, but it seems to me that there is a balance to be struck.
It was only when we issued the annual bills that we started to see an influx of appeals. To date, we have had 12 appeals, and we are dealing with those.
I was that committee’s EU reporter when we identified the Commission’s blueprint as one of its EU priorities.The action that I have proposed that the committee may wish to take on the scrutiny of the identified EU priority areas is also based on the letter dated 17 May that we received from the cabinet secretary on how the Scottish Government plans to engag...
For example, we are not allowed to book meeting dates far enough in advance to allow us to present to external agencies and MSPs any kind of logical or helpful schedule.