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Today’s debate is an opportunity for MSPs to contribute to the development of the strategy.It is important to stress that the strategy will not impose additional burdens on the sector.
What about the convener of a finance committee on a council compared with a back-bench MSP, for example? I fully accept that that is a very different position, convener.
Most crucial of all for me as a constituency MSP is that my newsletter has benefited from a picture of me sitting in the driver’s seat of a number 10 bus with a big cheesy grin.
I am a member of Aberdeen City Council, which will come up in my speech.I thank everyone who provided MSPs with briefings and evidence on the Welfare Reform Bill.
The Scottish Government has recently established a Scottish CERT Strategy Steering Group, chaired by Stewart Maxwell MSP, and working in partnership with the energy suppliers to ensure better delivery of CERT in Scotland.
This is a correction to the earlier answer to this parliamentary question given by Fiona Hyslop MSP on 17 July 2007. I have written to Ms McKelvie to say that the Students Award Agency for Scotland has apologised for their mistake.
It will also be reported to the noise liaison group, which we have established with the local authorities and which will be responsible for monitoring and assisting us with planning the noise management regime that we will put in place throughout the life of the project. My colleague Margaret Smith MSP and many of her constituents have raised concerns with ...
I welcome the Minister for Parliamentary Business, Bruce Crawford MSP; Stephen Sadler, who is head of the Scottish Government's elections and local governance team; and Andy Sinclair, who is a senior policy officer in the referendum and elections division of the Scottish Government.I invite the minister to make some opening remarks before we move to questio...
The series of performance audits that are outlined in the programme take account of views that were expressed by MSPs, Scottish Government officials, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives and Senior Managers and a range of other organisations and people with whom we work.The studies that are included i...