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Official Report
Meeting date:
20 January 2011
Meeting of the Parliament 20 January 2011
That is what we should seek as a Parliament if we are to take best advantage of our position as one of the countries with the most plentiful fishing in the whole European continent.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 October 2010
Public Petitions Committee 29 October 2010
Break-out details for the afternoon sessions are detailed on our badges, and members are encouraged to sign the picture the change installation that will be set up at break time and lunch time.For now, I will hand over to Rhona Brankin MSP, the chair of the Public Petitions Committee, and wish Andrew Deans and Rowena Carlton the very best of luck. On behalf...
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 October 2010
Meeting of the Parliament 28 October 2010
If we compare the figure for teachers claiming jobseekers allowance with the figures for other countries in these islands, we find that there are fewer in the workforce in Scotland, as there are 10.9 per thousand in Scotland compared with 14.5 per thousand in England, 20.8 per thousand in Wales and 41.6 per thousand in Northern Ireland, on comparable figures.I know that the Labour Party would like the whole country to engage in collective amnesia about the financial position into which it brought this country, but those comparable figures from across the United Kingdom, combined with the dramatic statistic that two thirds of the decline in teacher numbers in Scotland comes from Labour-controlled local authorities or authorities in which Labour is participating in the administration, show that both at UK level and at local government level this is not the best...
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 May 2010
Meeting of the Parliament 20 May 2010
The minister might be aware of work that I am doing to help to preserve the future of Carluke’s high mill, Scotland’s best-preserved example of a windmill.
Official Report
Meeting date:
11 March 2010
Meeting of the Parliament 11 March 2010
The fact is that this Administration has supported curriculum for excellence—although it seems that the Labour Party is equivocal at best in its support. Interruption. Order, order.
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 March 2010
Meeting of the Parliament 04 March 2010
It is crucial that every penny of the budgets that are allocated to support our young people and their skills should be used to the best advantage but, last Friday, Skills Development Scotland staff in Lanarkshire—an area that is particularly badly hit by youth unemployment—were told that 20 per cent of the funding for the crucial get ready for work program...
Official Report
Meeting date:
9 February 2010
Public Petitions Committee 09 February 2010
From the discussion that we had, I believe that members feel that a literature review to find out what is out there now would be the best way forward. If the committee decides on a literature review, we must put together a research proposal, which I will do in conjunction with the clerks and the convener.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2009
Plenary, 03 Dec 2009
Independence Referendum To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government considers that £12 million spent on a referendum is the best use of taxpayers' money in a recession.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 November 2009
Justice Committee 03 November 2009
In the correspondence that we have, the cabinet secretary has expressed the view that he was not aware of the US Government’s understanding. Again, that matter would be best pursued with him. I do not know whether it would be competent of us to ask a question directly of the United States Government, although, if it was the committee’s view that we should d...
Official Report
Meeting date:
8 September 2009
Public Petitions Committee, 08 Sep 2009
As Willie Coffey said, two of the bodies were against an impartial, independent review, but two others were in favour—the Prison Service Union and the Prison Officers Association Scotland. Audit Scotland was at best neutral.I will quickly go over some of the points that still support the case for an impartial and independent review.
