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Official Report
Meeting date:
8 January 2013
Welfare Reform Committee 08 January 2013
That is likely to involve very small numbers of people, if anybody, but we need to have arrangements in place.The next phase of the introduction will be from October to April next year. My best estimate based on the information that we have, although it is not confirmed, is that relatively small numbers of people in Scotland will be on universal credit at t...
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 November 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 27 November 2012
Using social networks and advertising campaigns—including the effective side-of-bus advertising that has been seen in Glasgow and across Scotland—the organisation has worked hard to get that message across.Scottish first aid week culminates in the Scottish first aid awards, which will take place in Glasgow this Thursday in conjunction with The Herald and the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations. The awards showcase some of the best...
Official Report
Meeting date:
31 May 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 31 May 2012
The issue is far too important to the people of Dumfries and Galloway to be kicked into the long grass, but they are, understandably, feeling ignored and let down.The best way to conclude my speech is simply to echo the words of the excellent campaign by the Dumfries and Galloway Standard: it is time to bring years of inaction to end and it is time for the ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 May 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 17 May 2012
We are about to do a refresh of our veterans strategy, and this is one of the issues that will be covered.I am grateful that the issue has been raised and for the work that has been done by the cross-party group. Raising these issues is the best way of ensuring that we improve our response to dealing with such problems.13:04 Meeting suspended. 14:15 On res...
Official Report
Meeting date:
24 April 2012
Education and Culture Committee 24 April 2012
Too often in the current Administration—particularly so in the case of Ms Hyslop’s colleague and successor as Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning—there has been intolerance of those who hold different views, and there has been a tendency among ministers to believe that they know best. Neither of those characteristics is healthy.I am not sa...
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 April 2012
Finance Committee 18 April 2012
For example, although we are able to specify the number of people receiving legal aid as a result of their entitlement to an existing UK benefit, we have not been able to disaggregate fully the cost of that provision from the overall cost of legal aid because the individual cost varies significantly from case to case.We appreciate the committee’s desire to have as much detail as possible and we will do our best...
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 April 2012
Subordinate Legislation Committee 17 April 2012
We do appreciate the committee’s desire for the detail, and we will do our best to provide whatever we can as early as we can.By way of assurance on that point, the committee will be aware that the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy gave an undertaking by letter to the convener of the Welfare Reform Committee that we will make avail...
Official Report
Meeting date:
17 April 2012
Health and Sport Committee 17 April 2012
I take no pleasure in this debate, but I say to Drew Smith that, although I do not dispute his right to lodge a motion to annul the regulations, it is basically grandstanding and a form of gesture politics—it reminds me of the phrase “power without responsibility”.We have the responsibility to ensure that we do the best for the workers in the NHS and for th...
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 March 2012
Health and Sport Committee 27 March 2012
Would that be a good outcome or a bad outcome? I am not quite sure how best to answer that. At the moment, the negotiations are predicated on taking forward something that is based, at least loosely, on the UK Government’s scheme.
Official Report
Meeting date:
22 February 2012
Economy, Energy and Tourism Committee 22 February 2012
The bill represents an opportunity to deal with the matter at the point when the land register is being dealt with, and the keeper has indicated that the offence would be of assistance.When it comes to serious and organised criminality, those who are best placed to know how widespread and insidious it can be are those on the law enforcement side.
