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We have periodically had problems in getting members of all the main parties to sign up to what is an important group—certainly, despite my best efforts, I cannot persuade members of the Conservative party to join us this year.
It will be difficult for us to agree our draft report on 19 December without the relevant information on significant shifts in the budget and with unanswered questions.I seek your guidance, convener. I think that the best thing to do would be to bring the cabinet secretary back and ask him to respond on those issues and perhaps on one or two other issues th...
We will need to get a clear focus on what impact community planning is having on the quality of services that people receive. We will do our best, but I suspect that it will not be easy, for all the usual reasons about the quality of available information.
Politicians who took advantage of free education, such as me and Jack McConnell, should be careful about pulling up the ladder from the next generations.Where we disagree is on the best way in which to bring forward a skills strategy.
I hope that whatever party gets in south of the border after the next election will look at best practice in Scotland and follow suit.The minister raised issues about cost.
As my colleague David McLetchie said not too long ago, the next best thing to a Conservative Government is a Government that implements Conservative policies.