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On the whole, I would say that some of the figures that Scotland’s Colleges brought to the Education and Culture Committee were not particularly great at the best of times.We have to ask the Labour Party what it would do differently.
Is there anything to prevent the Parliament from deciding what it believes to be best? Yes, if you were to decide that there should be no mailshots and no broadcasting.
Could you comment on that? One of the best examples of Skills Development Scotland and schools using role models is when we bring back into schools young people who are, or have been, on a modern apprenticeship or who have been to college or university to talk about their experiences.
There are financial challenges and questions about how best to use our public funds, as the cost of keeping someone in prison is significant and the cost of constructing prisons is even greater.
On the whole, if we assume a five-day week—and I wish I had one—the three-day, two-day split between parliamentary and non-parliamentary activity is about right. It is about how we make best use of that time. I am not necessarily in favour of extending that time; we need to concentrate on how we make better and best ...
In the context of domestic abuse, in particular, it is important to talk to victims not only because it is the right thing to do but because, empirically, they are the best predictor of further harm by the perpetrator.
I will not press amendment 288 at this stage, but there is a principle of the commission being fettered in making finely balanced decisions in the best interests—it believes—of crofting by the way in which expenses may be awarded against it.