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Greater engagement is also needed regarding decisions on how best to fund measures that contribute to achieving net zero targets across local and central government.
The Local Governmentin Scotland Act (2003) introduced the statutory responsibility of best value forlocal authorities. To ensure that best value is consistentlyapplied by local authorities Audit Scotland carries out an audit of best value andcommunity planning of each local au...
Do we or do we not recognise an obligation to do our best for our constituents? Order. Nicola Sturgeon's obligation is to do her best for her constituents.
It might be worth while identifying who might best raise those points directly by submitting another petition, to which the committee would give a fair hearing.
For example, Richard Dixon, who is WWF Scotland's director, said:"This is still the best piece of climate change legislation proposed anywhere in the world."
As Iain Gray will remember, in the concordat the idea was to make year-on-year progress towards lower class sizes in Scotland—and, of course, we now have the best class sizes in Scotland that have ever been recorded.
For delivery, it is important to work out for the shorter term and in a more focused way where our best chances are of achieving the growth in speaker numbers.