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That seems to be a recipe for mayhem that none of us wants.As the minister and others know, many protest marches are spontaneous—that is certainly true of the marches with which I and people who gave evidence to the committee have been involved.
The EU budget deal has helped matters. Many commentators did not predict that deal, but expected the uncertainty to continue into the Austrian presidency and perhaps beyond.
There are one or two other similar examples.A situation could have arisen in which, although the principal powers would be sought via a private bill, all sorts of other applications would be made to other authorities, and objectors would have to chase through many different applications, send their objections to many...
In the justice system, there are not many satisfied victims of crime. Moreover, in our justice system there is not much process or ritual involved in sentencing that enables the victim to feel that their experience is recognised as part of the process.
One of the main criticisms of recent training programmes is that we have done an awful lot of training, but there have not been many jobs at the end of the training.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many people have entered teacher training courses in each year since 1999 and, of these, how many successfully completed courses, broken down by subject area.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many times special advisers have travelled (a) in the UK and (b) abroad since 1999 and how many of these visits took place without a minister being present, broken down by place of visit and cost.
Not maintaining pavements leads to people tripping, falling and suffering serious damage. Many people make fun of pothole politics as if it is somehow of a lower order than high-level policy making, but my impression is that for the people whom we represent, the issue is extremely important.The evidence that we received from Bill Barker and Graham Mackay of...
Therefore, will the First Minister tell me when he knew about the problem, in which other councils it is replicated and how many Scottish children are in similar danger?