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.
To an extent, the budget is still dealing with some projects that pre-date the STPR. We still have the Aberdeen western peripheral route and Borders rail, which did not feature in the STPR.
In going to the Official Journal of the European Union to advertise a new project, we start with a pre-qualification questionnaire and then move to a full tendering process.
I think that that is true. Each school—whether it is a pre-school centre, a primary school or a secondary school—is at a different starting point in moving forward with curriculum for excellence.
An analysis of 37 countries by the Financial Times also found that the UK was the only country where levels of economic inactivity had not recovered to their pre-pandemic level.viiJohn Burn-Murdoch, Financial Times, 21 July 2022.
I do not know whether he was a minister when his party formed the Administration, but can he recall a time when a Government minister pre-empted the results of a consultation?
Not only would it be completely inappropriate for ministers to seek to intervene or suppress any inquiries, pre-empt their findings or do anything other than allow the process to continue, it would also be unlawful.