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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.
Each of us has a mutual duty to study all the evidence, and the process of deciding the best way of doing that and seeing whether any gaps in the evidence need to be filled might best be tackled through a meeting, in the first instance, of our officials and then further consideration by each of us.
In the review, and in your discussions with trade unions about the challenges that they face, how will you use the West Lothian approach as an example of best practice? Using the example of how different local authorities have delivered a reduction in class sizes would not necessarily inform the decision on the best ...
That was despite the fact that, for reasons that are best known to those who wrote the Scotland Act 1998 and its attendant concordats, although policy on animal welfare is devolved, the budgets that govern it are reserved.