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Is the SNP about to backtrack on fair taxes? Only a few months ago, SNP MSPs voted against using a higher rate of tax to invest in our education system, yet within weeks the SNP backed the move in its manifesto.
Will she meet me and other interested MSPs to discuss a skills academy to bring together education and training providers and the industry to address the needs of the sector?
I was keen to speak today both as the SNP MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife and as a resident of Strathearn—my home is in Comrie, which is some 16 miles from Gleneagles.
I am familiar with the example that he gave, as it has been brought to the attention of my colleague Mike Russell, who is the constituency MSP. More generally, there can be difficulties with ensuring that teachers and subject options are in place in some of our smaller secondary schools.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
25 February 2008
The Minister for Community Safety, acting in his capacity as constituency MSP, has raised issues with different public agencies concerning the Aviemore planning applications on a number of occasions.
Across the United Kingdom, an estimated 500,000 dog owners use inhumane collars, which can deliver an electric shock to their pets that lasts as long as 30 seconds. Christine Grahame has invited MSPs and members of the press who want to experience the pain for themselves to pop along to committee room 1 after the debate and try a collar out.
I am sure that I am not alone in saying that I doubt that a week goes by when, as an MSP, I do not meet or hear from someone who is struggling to cope, is anxious and worried about their benefits and the roof over their head and is wondering—goodness knows—about what the future might hold.
Notwithstanding what he has just reported, there have obviously been concerns from MSPs right across the chamber about a number of police officers who have wanted to come forward privately to raise issues about recent changes in policing and the effect on morale.
As other members have done, I mention our excellent convener, Bruce Crawford MSP, because the way in which he chaired our committee’s weekly proceedings was exemplary.
I was also struck by the observation that the chap made about arriving for dinner and not being met by a host. We can do something about that. MSPs can be delegated to tables and so on and there can be meeting points or whatever.The event went very well.