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Amendment 111, in the name of the cabinet secretary, is grouped with amendments 113, 117 to 141, 143 to 145, 147, 149, 151, 152 and 154 to 162. I call members’ attention to the pre-emption information that is shown on the list of groupings.
Did they all function continuously throughout the severe weather?14:15 We have a programme of pre-winter checks, which includes point heater operation.
We are challenging that notion and engaging in a conversation with parents about support from the start, the early years agenda and the pre-school agenda. It is exciting that a group of parent council representatives is saying that they would like taking that work forward to be a priority.In East Lothian, we have cross-party permission to take forward the n...
It seems to me that no sooner had Scottish Labour members at Westminster voted for the Scotland Act 1998 and the establishment of the Parliament than they embarked on the process of rubbishing it and engaging in a huffy competition for attention and pre-eminence with their MSP colleagues, whether they were ministers or back benchers.
As members will be aware, consideration of the bill was specifically postponed to allow MSPs to be aware of the outcome of the Law Society’s special general meeting on the topic and to ensure that our debate could be informed by the views of our legal professions. That initial meeting was pre-empted by a referendum in which the Law Society’s position in fav...
The figures on people who drink at harmful or hazardous levels—which I have in front of me—show that that group is not limited to younger people. The reality is that in every pre-retirement age category, the drinking of between 50 and 58 per cent of men exceeds daily or weekly limits, or both, so it is simply not true to say that harmful or hazardous drinki...
The Society of Solicitor Advocates is actively participating in the review and we think that it would be discourteous to pre-empt its findings.We set out the principles on which we believe that rights of audience must be exercised in the paper that we provided to the committee this morning.
The educational aspects will also require to be demonstrated to HMIE, which I presume will lead to the educational aspects becoming pre-eminent in any education authority proposals.Educational aspects will become more and more important as public spending is slashed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in London and we have less and less room for manoeuvre in...