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Those who have read in the May-June issue of Roof the article by Mary Taylor—a lecturer in the housing policy and practice unit of Stirling University, and a former adviser to the committee—will note that Angela Eagle, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Social Security, commented at the conference of the Chartered Institute of H...
In particular, I want to place on record the committee's thanks to our clerks, Lee Bridges, Mary Dinsdale and Rodger Evans. I thank the committee's advisers, Sally Haw and Dr Laurence Gruer, who are in the gallery today, for drawing up the report.
The figures in that study are for the period up to 1994. Earlier, Mary Scanlon said that she readily accepts blame for the period 1979 to 1997, when the Conservatives built up child poverty and pensioner poverty.
Obviously, we need to have choice because one consultant will charge more than another, but if there is a panel that meets standards and the committee approves those who are on it, we would be very happy with that.That leads us back to the final point that Mary Scanlon raised about compliance plus.
The acid test for diversity and funding in schools was that of St Mary's Episcopal Primary School. The SNP failed that test miserably, as it fell meekly into line with the desires of Mr Galbraith and Mr McConnell to dragoon that successful school back into local authority control.
If you then take your finger and smear it through the rubber stamp, you might smudge or lighten the ink, but you will not change the name Marlyn Glen to the name Mary Mulligan. The smearing will not change the detail in the fingerprint.
That concludes the oral evidence on group 23.Our 10th group today is group 24, which relates to the objection from Brian Byars and Marie Sutherland. The objectors have chosen to rest on their written evidence.
I apologise to Margo MacDonald.It seems to me that Lord Fraser has been remarkably kind to those consultants, which is obviously a matter for him, but I express my hope that the corporate body will give further consideration to that point and adopt a suitably rigorous policy towards the settlement of fee accounts when the time comes.As so much has been said about Lord Fraser's criticisms of the civil service, I would like to conclude by expressing heartfelt thanks to all the staff of the Holyrood project team. I will mention Mary...