This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
As a country, we must build up the best possible case and get the support of the UK Government—if we still require its support by 2013—so that we can secure the best deal in the next financial perspective and change the allocation formulas that have been used until now.
Your answer is that, at the moment, public ownership is the best way forward. The best way forward at the moment is a publicly owned company getting better.
We will use these next three months to engage with local authorities, trades unions, and healthcare and service providers to reach agreement on reform of social care which makes best use of the funding in the system, delivers fairer and more efficient services and achieves economies of scale, while enhancing the focus on community need.
For example, Mark McDonald from Scottish Autism told the Committee:
We must take the learning that we got from the neurodevelopmental pathway pilots that were done by NAIT and implement it across Scotland. Best practice is a bad traveller, but there is no reason why we cannot take the learning from those pilots and apply it elsewhere.2Scottish Parliament. (...
Committee reports
Date published:
17 December 2025
As well as running a public survey on people’s understanding of the Budget, the Committee asked a group of volunteers from an existing citizens’ panel to work on helping the Committee to understand how best to use participation in a budget scrutiny context.
Committee consideration
The Member explains in the DPM that the Scottish Information Commissioner is best placed to determine the specific requirements in respect of the broad proactive publication duty given their role and that this will be a substantial document.