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To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has to ensure that girls and boys have equal opportunities to participate in youth sports schemes which it funds or promotes, especially team sports such as football, rugby and basketball.
It will be interesting for whoever is Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development to see how it has operated and what impact the new scheme has on the way in which funds are prioritised and directed compared with the old scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of the funding for the Queens Park development in Glasgow is being generated under the private finance initiative or public private partnerships.
As the convener said, that is a flexible test, and the committee would have to take a view on what was necessary and what a satisfactory consolidation was, but that is the best test that people have come up with so far.
We simply thought that that practice would continue and that it would not, therefore, be appropriate or necessary to be more prescriptive by writing a precise requirement for statutory consultation into the bill. We need a degree of flexibility. Although you are trying to achieve a degree of flexibility, is there a p...
Members pointed out that this committee should be asking the chief medical officer about public health issues. I was prepared to be flexible at the beginning. Although it will take time for committees to find the best way of working together, that will be better for the Parliament in the long run.