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.
Additionally, we will continue to establish our ‘route map’ to building de-carbonisation, including the completion of work to replace the building energy management system at Holyrood, which is an enabler for future work.
Jackie Baillie, you have up to six minutes. 15:45 So many broken promises, so many wasted years and so many Scots let down—that is the legacy of this SNP Government and it is a legacy that is wholly owned by John Swinney.
In fact, in some ways, Scottish education is trapped in its bureaucracy. There are just so many agencies with so many people meeting again and again in different arenas, revisiting the same issues and coming to no firm conclusions.
As custodians of the land, many farmers understand far better than most of us the need to transition to more sustainable farming practices, and many have been doing so for some time.
If there have been no prosecutions, why do we still need to retain this rather high maximum penalty? As with many offences in a regulatory environment, the principal purpose is as a deterrent.
We are working very closely with local authorities, and the last thing that we want is to give them another onerous exercise to undertake, and many local authorities felt that cumulative impact assessments would be an onerous exercise.