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There is an issue to do with joining up the agreements more clearly with the services, so that there is a clearer feed into the strategic level—the goals and aims—and an understanding of how those relate to the services and what they mean for practitioners on the ground. The outcome agreements are pitched at a different level. We need more thinking about ho...
It could be one of the means by which everyone is alerted to what is expected for their property. Yes, it is certainly part of our pitch to say that energy efficiency is one of the benefits for a home owner or a developer of homes.
I recall there being Cabinet sub-committees that took a strategic objective and drove it through, so I am interested to find out whether such committees have been established as part of the process of government. Perhaps, off the pitch, Jackie Baillie might like to point out to me the helpful remarks that were made by the Secretary of State for Scotland.
Although the situation has not reached that pitch yet, in my view, it is clear that some sections of our society, being so obsessed by their fear of strangers, are prepared to turn these islands of ours into something of a police state.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 November 2005
To ask the Scottish Executive what the reasons were for its overturning a decision by Highland Council to refuse planning permission for a Hutchison 3G telephone mast in King Brude Road, Inverness.
However, although we need to find ways of engaging them more, we should also recognise that boys' books are pitched at a lower level than are books for girls of the same age.
The SNP has brought class sizes down to their lowest-ever levels, introduced the baccalaureate and abolished university tuition fees, is reforming the exam system and is moving Scotland forward, but all we hear from the Labour benches is a long—very long—high-pitched whining sound.Labour members complain when ministers and cabinet secretaries do not interve...
Unlike Linda Fabiani, I have not managed to read Jeremy Purvis’s 47-page document. However, given the stimulating pitch that he provided, I can assure him that it will move to the top of my to-do list as soon as I leave the chamber.