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It appears, from media coverage and from communication that MSPs have received, that most of the concern that was expressed about higher still came from teaching staff about their preparedness.Nevertheless, the political decision to go ahead with implementation was taken.
The fact that we are locally based and dealing with our local MSPs in this Parliament is a helpful democratic link.David, I would not wish you to take what I was saying earlier as a fully-fledged approach.
First, the order devolves competence to legislate about the funding of political parties to assist MSPs in the performance of their parliamentary duties, allowing the Parliament to devise its own arrangements.
It is important that we apply our minds to that rather than to the difficulties of the past 15 minutes. First, I thank the 77 MSPs who signed the motion that I lodged on 1 September.