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It is already discussing with the school estate strategy working group how the trust can best support the delivery of our and local authorities' joint aspirations to improve the school estate.
What steps has the minister taken with SEPA and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities to ensure that members of the public who may be affected by flooding in the way that my constituents in Tillicoultry and Milnathort were affected are given direct advice on how best to prepare themselves properly for that threat?
The East Ayrshire initiative has been very successful, which is why Robin Gourlay, who piloted it, chairs the work stream that is charged, as part of policy development, with spreading best practice throughout Scotland.
We should consider the issue that the member raises and identify the best way forward. I know that there are already pressures in the member's constituency because of existing statutory instruments, regardless of the Administration's policy on class sizes.
I hope that the same applies to all the parties that are represented in the Parliament.Given that any application for departmental expenditure limit reserves should be made by the Secretary of State for Scotland on behalf of the Scottish people, does the cabinet secretary agree that whatever parallel universe Des Browne inhabits, it is not one that best ser...
Why has the cabinet secretary not sat down with local authorities, teachers and others in a national body to take action, as she has been urged to do for the best part of the past year? Does she consider it acceptable to recruit more and more people into teacher training while cutting education budgets up and down the country so that those people have no jo...
I note the strong support from a former Labour First Minister, as well as from members of other parties in the Parliament, in favour of Lord Sutherland's conclusion that the £30 million attendance allowance funding that was withdrawn by the United Kingdom Government should be returned to Scotland. I will comment next week on how best we can reflect that sha...