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.
We will see what we can do, but it will be difficult to fit in an extra meeting. We have five unprogrammed committee meetings at the end of May and in June.
An environmental impact assessment could be part of that process. One imagines that hundreds of extra car journeys will be necessary—for those who have cars—when a rural or small-town post office is closed.
We should consider the depth of its concern.I accept that taking extra oral evidence may be inconvenient, but that should not stand in the way of our looking into the matter.
People know that there are already an extra 300 teachers in our schools and 250 training places, and that there is £40 million of additional investment in the fabric of Scotland's schools.
I think that we should bring the wow factor in here. 15:50 Presiding Officer, I think that we have already got the wow factor in here with yourself and Sandra White. I may take a little extra time. I welcome the debate and the many positive contributions that have been made thus far.
This is the same Lord Freud who, in a letter to me, told motor neurone disease sufferers to take in a lodger or work extra hours in order to cope with the bedroom tax.