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.
One of the reasons why Scotland has lower levels of child poverty compared with those in the rest of the UK is that housing costs are relatively low here. The housing programme is a huge contribution to achieving the target.
It is a Government education reform programme. As you would expect, we are engaging closely with the Government and others on, and participating in, that programme.
During the same period, I had to assist care homes that had to organise their own patient transport due to the lack of ambulance cover to take patients to hospital.
Item 2 is consideration of some correspondence that the committee has received and item 3 is consideration of the committee’s work programme. Do members agree to take those items in private?