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The UK Government has been on a sticky wicket about whether it has kept its pre-election promises. In my view, fiscal drag breaks the spirit of those promises, although people might argue that it does not break the letter of them.
It has been mentioned that bus patronage is struggling to get back to pre-Covid levels, and we are struggling to make the required significant modal shift.
The Scottish Fiscal Commission has gone quite far by suggesting that the spending review is a point at which, if others have a different approach to spending plans, they should set that out, particularly in a pre-election period. Given that an organisation as eminent as the SFC is saying that, it will perhaps put a little bit of pressure on Opposition parti...
He expressed concern that more research is needed to ensure that safeguards are in place before the age is reduced from 18 to 16, suggesting that pre-legislative evidence should be taken more seriously by the Scottish Government before the Parliament makes significant changes.
Medical Negligence (Pre-NHS Treatment) (PE1253) The first petition that we will consider this afternoon is PE1253, from James McNeill, which calls on the Parliament to compel the Scottish Government to establish a discretionary compensation scheme to provide redress to persons who suffered injury due to negligent medical treatment prior to the establishmen...
To ask the Scottish Executive whether a local or national park authority, in drawing up a core path plan, has the power to identify core paths on a route that is not a pre-existing right of way. Yes. S3W-34831