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I must be careful in what I say as safety factors are obviously involved but, quite frankly, a lot of it is nonsense.I do not wish to detract from what my colleague Iain Strickland said about the need for cost-effectiveness, but that is not what I—or the MSP who asked the question—was talking about.
Is it not more important that the complainer knows that an investigation into the complaint will be conducted properly at whichever level the complaint is dealt with? My point is that many MSPs and MPs hear from constituents with complaints about reserved or devolved matters, including some that can be dealt with by the Scottish public services ombudsman.
At a meeting on 10 February involving the college board of management, local MSPs and the local MP, we were told that the college would deliver a surplus at the end of this financial year.
We would be making a major change to Scots law almost on the nod, without people across Scotland having the opportunity to make an input. Notwithstanding the fact that MSPs have been lobbied—and some members have said that parents have contacted them—I suspect that only a tiny proportion of parents or the general public is aware that the committee is consid...
The only evidence is what we know from our backgrounds and the information that we get in our communities and constituencies as we go about our jobs as MSPs. I think that I know that what I am saying is what people want, but other members might have a different perspective.
Policy has become more responsive to rural areas of Scotland in a number of ways, which is largely due to ministers' extra accountability through Parliament to individual MSPs and the committee, but it is difficult to disentangle the effect of devolution from the other changes that have taken place—for example, the common agricultural policy moving towards ...
I am aware of the letter that Tricia Marwick and some other MSPs wrote to me. This morning, Tricia Marwick has again, very concisely, outlined many of the concerns that were raised in the report prepared by Fife Council and Fife constabulary.