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With Jill Campbell at the helm and very ably assisted by Mike Rumbles, the MSP for the area in the last parliamentary session, local people have been campaigning for this road safety measure for many years and action is long overdue.
We did not want to threaten jobs; we want to see jobs created. The constituency MSP, Brian Adam, lobbied strongly for the Arjowiggins plant—it was appropriate and quite right for him to do so—as did the company.
Secondly, as before, all ministers will have ministerial and MSP salaries frozen at the 1 April 2008 level, and law officers’ salaries are similarly frozen.
I am keen for Highlands and Islands MSPs to meet all the chairs. If it is possible and diaries allow, would you be willing and happy to hear from the chairs what their experience is on the ground as colleges that are part of UHI?
I will say a little more about the cabinet secretary’s views on devolution in a second, but I would ask her and other MSPs to look at the report that we are considering today.