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It is hard to gain business and market share—companies compete strongly for it and defend it as best they possibly can—so it is difficult to dispose of parts of the business.
Those payments are significant calls on our resources.That opens up a debate to which I am giving consideration—how will that information be best shown in budget documents in the future?
Both systems have all the problems that can be expected from a situation in which there is multiple access to a common resource and everyone wants to get the best deal for themselves. There is a full circle.
We should start with one of the more senior former MSPs: former Presiding Officer George Reid. I suppose that these days I am best described as a recovering politician.
We see that at tartan week in America.Tradition perhaps best encapsulates the main dividing issue around the register of tartan, namely the division between the wovenists and the modernists, which we have heard much of in the debate.
The Government's obsession with huge databases threatens the identities of millions of people. The best way to keep data secure is not to hold data in the first place.
Yesterday, it was described as the "best outcome" for local government. Obviously, councils will say that if they are offered £10.7 billion and then get £11.1 billion.
I remain open to different forms of engagement with different organisations—it just depends on what suits best. The key point is that we will not make things better for children and young people unless we work in partnership, and I work in partnership with many champions at a local level.As I have said, we have set up structures and mechanisms to get materi...
That is the crucial thing about the see me campaign. It gets across probably the best-known facts about mental health problems but also the least-believed fact: that one in four of us can have them and they can still happen to anybody.I might not have been diagnosed with an enduring mental illness such as schizophrenia—I say “might not” because it would rea...
I am concerned by the representations of bodies such as RSPB Scotland and the Scottish Wildlife Trust, which have real concerns that the proposal could destroy a substantial part of the Portencross SSSI, which they say has the best remaining intertidal mud and sandflats on the outer Clyde and which are important feeding grounds for a huge range of waterfowl...