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We must ensure that education on solvents, like alcohol and drugs education, is pitched in a way that gets information across to young people, and make it clear that we are not lecturing them, preaching to them or ordering them about.
The scenes that we see on television deter a lot of other people from supporting the argument.I used to have exactly the same argument with Peter Hain in the days when he was a radical Young Liberal and went round digging up cricket pitches and golf courses, which I said harmed his case.
That is a challenge, but that is why it is important to have it reflected in this strategic statement.The next item might strike some people as a bit off the pitch, but I think that it is important.
I entirely accept the point that, although the clerks will work hard to make a borderline case acceptable, if an amendment is inadmissible and cannot be made admissible, it should stay off the pitch. I am much more interested in the argument about the non-selection of admissible amendments.
The Parliamentary Bureau will resolve problems such as clashes between the committees' remits, or whether there should be a lead committee. I think that we would win in a pitched battle, if it came to that. We are much better fighters in this committee.
The Parliamentary Bureau will resolve problems such as clashes between the committees' remits, or whether there should be a lead committee. I think that we would win in a pitched battle, if it came to that. We are much better fighters in this committee.
There is artwork by the prisoners around the football pitch. Adult prisoners had their recreation room decorated with portraits of Elvis Presley and others—he was the only one I recognised, because I am so old.
There will be guidelines and a framework of expectation surrounding the pre-application consultation process, and we will work with the developer community as well as the local authority community to ensure that there is a shared understanding of what is intended.I do not think that we will be able to prevent developers from making a pitch for the advantage...
The local authority side made a strong pitch on the basis that there were some councils—mostly rural ones but also including Aberdeen and Dundee, I think—in which, for a variety of reasons, the costs that had gone through the grant-aided expenditure distribution system did not accurately reflect the actual costs of teachers' salaries in those authorities.
I am not in a position to reply on behalf of the Subordinate Legislation Committee, but you have obviously made a pitch to be given a speech in Thursday's debate.