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Inevitably, they do not come in the best frame of mind.However, we recently carried out a survey of our clients, and among people whose programme had been mandatory we found that 50 per cent changed their view about the Wise Group once they had been on a programme.
We have the opportunity now to add the other two equalities strands to the bill, but I suppose it is a question of weighing up whether this is the best opportunity to do that. I hope that that makes some sense.
Our witness from Shetland is not running late; she is not coming at all, because the planes cannot take off today. That seems the best excuse ever—I wish that I had had that one for school.
We estimate that, with better planning and management, the Government could save up to £13 million a year out of the £114 million that it is currently spending.Our £114 million estimate is the best available and is derived from a new database that the Government created as part of its public procurement reform programme.
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 2010
This includes awareness raising seminars, best practice workshops, on-site training and development of nationally recognised containment and predator control qualifications.
Committee reports
Date published:
19 December 2025
Professor David Bell suggested that “it is not clear that the best interests of future generations of Scots will be best served by creating another centralised organisation with a remit that is difficult to define precisely”.