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Our public sector members who are trying to get planning consents say that they are happy to pay a higher fee if they get a better service, and they see ring fencing as a way to help protect the budget and get the funding reinvested.
I have heard that, for parents of young children, the ability to get support at home instead of having to organise their infant in order to get out the door for it might be the difference between their getting help and not getting help....
The fabric of Scotland’s tourism industry is so diverse and the needs are so different that DMO input is essential. If you do not get it, you will not get the full picture.
The current shortage has been caused by delays by the Indian Government in authorising imports of codeine-based Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs), which are required for manufacturing co-codamol.
We recognise that sometimes fathers may not be actively involved in their children’s lives even though they may like to be, for example, in situations of conflict and separation.
Instead of asking, “Does Government get business?”—I think that it does, to an extent—part of our challenge might be about business not getting Government.
I agree with exactly what Beau Johnston said about youth work and mental health support. In addition, active schools are important in getting our young people engaged in activities in groups, so that they are not just at home on the computer, doing work in a very isolated way....
I assure Mr Brown and the Parliament that the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government is in active dialogue with the UK Government, which has the responsibility to resolve those issues.