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 much more difficult to make the case for making an intervention in an individual business. No one has been able to pin down the means of measurement. I do not want to duck the question, but it is difficult to answer it either way.
That way of considering the spend is a little bit more helpful because it will allow you to pin down which parts of the Executive's spend that it controls are focused on economic development.
The wind farm will be in very deep water and it will be more difficult to pin turbines to the sea bed there than it is at offshore wind farms in shallower water.
I understand why counsel are provided automatically in the High Court; I am trying to pin you down to describing the reality under the provisions through which those cases will be marked in the sheriff court.
That is a key issue that needs to be pinned down very precisely. I accept that, in the background, people are trying to work in partnership and all that, but if it does not work for whatever reason, how do we make the thing happen?
I think that that was the technical point that John McLean was making. I want to pin you down on whether that is a reasonable judgment for the police to make.
Anyone who wants to find out about properties and land in Scotland will find it difficult to pin down such information on title deeds.I see that Dr Ewing is not happy with that comment.
I thought that the model was a reasonable success, although we need to pin down its outcomes as far as the reasons for holding the event in the first place are concerned.