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That has a variety of benefits. It helps us to de-risk the main contracts, particularly where those are seasonal works and are affected by things such as the bird nesting season, and it gives direct payment to SMEs without there being anyone between Scottish Government payment and the SME directly receiving it.
The next question is, that amendment S3M-201.4, in the name of Des McNulty, which seeks to amend motion S3M-201, in the name of Derek Brownlee, on council tax, be agreed to.
Mr Chisholm says that he supports the likes of Des Browne, but can he tell us categorically here and now what the Labour Party position will be in the run-up to the next election?
Zài guòqù liangnián li, women hé Zhonguó jiàoyù jiànlì le liánhao de hézuò guanxì. My apologies for the accent.We have built good relationships with Chinese education over the past two years—and, as I think I have just shown, we are very committed to that.In April 2008, we signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese Ministry of Education that sets...
We focus substantially both on helping Scottish companies to take advantage of opportunity and on helping to de-risk the challenge of further internationalising their businesses.
The level of duplication relative to the size of the sums that we are talking about is, in my view, de minimis. On the question of checking, I think that the point is dealt with in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development principles for independent financial institutions.