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Ordinary Scots have been compassionate and generous to Africa, as well as following the tsunami last year, the earthquake earlier this year in Pakistan, Kashmir and India and other disasters and problems elsewhere in the world.
We owe it to them to ensure that the lessons from any mistakes are learned and acted upon. The SWIA and HMIC report follows an earlier report by Fife Council and the police.
Robert Stephen and his cosignatories seek simply to broaden the terms of their previous petition, which followed a similar track, in the hope that they might yet persuade the Executive that harbours are a suitable subject for it to consult on and, in due course, to legislate on.
However, will the First Minister answer the following question? I understand that the UK Treasury has agreed to contribute £20 million towards the policing costs.
The closure of a rural school can change the nature of the community in the decades that follow, by leading to further depopulation or an increasingly aging population.
That does not, as I understand it, tie the Executive to any particular specification. That follows later, so if the invitation is not going out until April I hope that we could play a part.
The committee considered the matter in passing as part of its inquiry into structural funds, but it did not articulate that it would do any work on it, although it said that it was an important debate for someone to follow. Of course, structural funds fall within the remit of the Enterprise and Culture Committee anyway.
Public Petitions System (Promotion) Agenda item 3 is a report on our event in Inverness to promote the public petitions system. Following our event in Dundee in June 2004, we agreed at our meeting on 15 September 2004 to have a rolling programme of events with the aim of raising awareness of the public petitions system among those groups and individuals wh...
I shall be happy to make the review public and to ensure that the decisions that are made following that review will be subject either to questioning or to debate in the Parliament, subject to the decisions of the Parliamentary Bureau.