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From time to time, we hear—at least anecdotally—concerns about the employment of locum doctors from foreign countries, whose command of English may not be particularly strong.
We will bring them together under the leadership of a Transport Scotland director who will be answerable to a board in which ministers have a clear interest. The line of command and communication could not be clearer.Obviously, we must ensure that the structure puts in place very robust mechanisms that will guarantee that costs are kept under control.
No, because on plenty of occasions we dispose of public land at levels below the higher values that could be commanded if we either retained them or disposed of them to another party in order to enable affordable housing developments to take their course.
To engage in any sort of “verbal or audible command” would only serve to destroy that illusion, it would discourage the fox (or mink) from vacating its earth and create an underground stand-off situation.
We all want an agriculture sector and a Scotland that has an outstanding reputation for food and drink that commands a premium in the marketplace, at home and abroad.
You may want to ask people who have greater technical command of the niceties of maintenance versus improvement about exactly how much value for money can be extracted through careful management of those two headings.
No one party can control transport markets, unless we have a purely state command and control economy. Transport accounts for about 20 per cent of the economy—£1 in every £5.
Nothing that I have witnessed in the past year, during which a report that commanded cross-party consensus at Holyrood was ignored at Westminster, has dissuaded me from that view.