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We cannot run the Scottish civil service, but we can encourage best practice and point out faults and failings—that is what the committee is all about.
We should simply accept that we are going to see him in November, make the best of it and not get bogged down in who was right and who was wrong with regard to the correspondence.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 December 2007
Education authoritiesand individual schools are best placed to decide how best to manage transition fromprimary to secondary education and to meet the particular needs of individual pupils.
Local fishermen and my officials will sit down with maps to discuss where the best fishing areas are and how we can zone Luce bay to avoid damaging the marine features.
That is fine, thank you.15:30 Probably the best example of that was when the high-alcohol minimum price was introduced here about four or five years ago for brand leaders in the category of beer that is 5.6 per cent alcohol and above.
We chose to do that from unrestricted resources because we thought that providing such support would be the best use of some funding that we actually control—a lot of our funding is directed by our donors.
It takes a view of what is appropriate and affordable at any given moment.There is not a simple trade-off between the rewards of doctors and clinical care, because doctors provide clinical care. The very best doctors provide the very best clinical care and are rewarded accordingly.
I do not believe that it would be best to tackle the issue at stage 3; it would be better to do so under a separate draft order, so that we can have a full discussion on the issue.
We would soon end up with a complicated definition that covered half a page of A4. The best approach is the minimalist definition that the National Archives of Scotland has chosen.