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I get single-sentence answers: even Jamie Hepburn just said that he would do his best to make sure that things are human rights compatible, and Michael Matheson gave a single sentence.
I have had many requests for supplementaries. I will do my very best to get through them. The cabinet secretary said that emergency services have not been affected.
I see the connotation in that, but it is probably best not to comment. Is it possible to push a few questions in the hope that we can get some answers at a later stage?
In the interests of voters and for consistency and the effective use of parliamentary time, we have concluded that a legislative consent motion is the best way to extend the relevant provisions of the bill to cover local elections in Scotland.
The board notes that the consultancy firm that carried out the survey of service users said that the results were“the best they have had”but, if only around 70 per cent of the total number of service users were surveyed and the response rate was 10 per cent, I am disappointed that the results are regarded as satisfactory.The board should ensure that the num...
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.