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The first question is, that amendment S3M-93.2, in the name of Des McNulty, which seeks to amend motion S3M-93, in the name of Stewart Stevenson, on the abolition of bridge tolls, be agreed to.
As well as dealing with the skills issue, the cultural change needs to be accelerated so that such work is accepted as just part of government. Do we not need to pin down the numbers? We have about 5,000 IT graduates in Scotland every year, and it is estimated that we need about 12,500, so we are 7,500 short across the piece every year.
I should have said earlier that, in the last week or so, we have worked with the Scottish Government on workshops on the once-for-Scotland policy approach to the partnership information network—PIN—procedures that it has adopted. We attended the workshops to give some advice on the whistleblowing procedure.
and you do not get a clear answer, but the issue is sometimes not so clear-cut with a big and complex project that has lots of different things in play. In such cases, pinning responsibility on one person can be quite difficult.
I share that ambition.I am pleased, too, that Historic Scotland has demonstrated a firm commitment to simplification and to de-layering of process and decision making.
I welcome to the gallery members of the task force, Community union works conveners Ross Clark of Dalzell and Des Fearon of Clydebridge, and other Community members and their families.
We have announced a 10-year franchise with the break option that I mentioned, which provides the opportunity to de-risk the franchise for ourselves and for the parties that bid for it.
That situation makes it difficult to pin down exactly what is happening in each health board, although we certainly can see big differences between health boards.