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The document moves beyond the curled-up piece of paper in the bedroom that is never filled in and handed in at reception, or that is handed in but not read as assiduously as it might be.The document is a phenomenal vehicle for training teams of staff in situ—in hotels, guest houses and restaurants—to ensure that focusing on customers and getting feedback be...
When I was at the offshore technology conference in Houston, Texas, I found that the delegates from Scotland were very receptive to it. It was particularly heartwarming to go to the all energy conference last week and find that people are migrating and diversifying from an oil and gas expertise base.
That association was very interested in the funding council's approach of trying to play to the individual strengths of institutions while also considering how to ensure that Scotland's competitiveness is advanced through the work of the funding council, and has been receptive to that. The reaction of the colleges to the work that has been done regarding un...
The service will be much more localised. Are the local authorities more receptive to that way of working? Yes. It goes back to the question of addressing local choice and the patchwork of universal service.
With regard to properties in care—by which I mean the various monuments that we look after on behalf of the Scottish ministers—we have a new visitor reception facility at Edinburgh castle.
Such sentences are not a matter of somebody being admitted once and serving a sentence for four, five, six, seven or eight years. They are a series of receptions and liberations that take up a significant amount of time in the prison week.
They had probably asked for a move in that direction before Linda Fabiani went out there in February, but they put the point to her formally when she was out there, and she mentioned it publicly at a reception in Blantyre that I had arranged to allow her to meet the business community.
We know that the consultation document lacks the most basic figures. It is getting a worse reception than Thatcher's poll tax did when it was first published.