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Proposals that are in place and in the pipeline were presented as a mere base investment, as if they were of no consequence at all, with the meaty stuff to follow only when we had all signed up to the tolls plan.
That is positive, but I ask the minister to consider the following area in which there will be differences under the bill from the situation with regard to internal Scottish discussions with chief police constables.
The reporter's job would be to analyse the technical detail and to sift out recommendations, which the minister might or might not follow. The minister would act on advice and would not be an expert.
I think that things will change following the appointment of the international development officer whom Graham mentioned, but at the moment we feel pretty isolated.
After it received a bad first report from HMIE, that school was also marked poor in the follow-up report. Had we had that example earlier in the year, it might have helped to clarify matters.
I agree with the rather restrained comments that my colleague Mr Smith made criticising the former Conservative Government for the uncontrolled way in which it allowed the right to buy with no follow-on policy of replacing the housing.
Would it be possible to bring together the various budgets that deal with that priority, so that we can see that the money follows the rhetoric? Are you distinguishing between youngsters who engage in antisocial behaviour and spending on those programmes?
As far as official announcements were concerned, Clive Shore's split between the business case first and the policy case second was followed. Whether that was actually the case is not clear, but it was claimed to be the case.