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It wanted to establish that the council was accountable to it, but I did not detect great tension arising from the fact that we were talking to MSPs. Neither do I believe that our appearing here regularly will be a problem.
Yes, I caught bits of it—it was very interesting and helpful, although, as the constituency MSP for Wishaw, the final outcome in which I am interested is the health of the local population.
The Liberal Democrats do not believe that the issue should be a party-political one. Individual MSPs should consider all the evidence and reach their own conclusions.The Local Government Committee took a considerable amount of evidence at stage 1, as our report shows.
I pay tribute to him for being thoroughly in touch with the problem, not just as a politician, an MSP and a minister, but in his previous incarnation as a doctor—as a psychiatrist and general practitioner.
As an avid reader of the Montrose Review, I was delighted to see Alex Johnstone MSP quoted as saying:"Nobody can describe the grant settlement to Angus Council as anything other than generous."