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I am sure that we all send him our best wishes.Parliamentary Time Parliamentary Time Today, we have the second of our round-table discussions on parliamentary time.
We will take advice on which organisation would be the best for us to hear from. The issue is not geography, but who is providing the service and has the information that we need to access.
It must be emphasised that not only councillors but council officers in some councils held the view that municipal is best; it was at that level that voluntary organisations were having difficulties.
The Scottish Biodiversity Forum, of which the Executive is a member, has recently published guidance for public bodies on the integration of biodiversity conservation into their Best Value policies entitled Best Value and Biodiversity in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will encourage local authorities and all other public bodies to put Remploy and Blind Workshops on their list if suppliers to compete for contracts under the Best Value regime. In pursuing Best Value local authorities should consider all routes to service improvement.
As part of its research on best practice, the project team has already visited a number of public sector sites, and consulted with the National Archives of Scotland and the Public Record Office.
I am sure that we will be able to share the good examples that exist throughout the country.In the past, we have perhaps not been as good at sharing best practice as we should have been.