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We are happy to provide a blow-by-blow account of how the education budget works.Despite Mike Russell's performance today, I would still rather speak to him because there has been some innovation.
Will he seek to persuade the Prime Minister that the likes of Railtrack, ScotRail and Virgin Trains make the case for a publicly owned and accountable railway far better than old, dogmatic socialists, such as him or me, ever could?
I understand that when housing legislation impacted on Abbeyfield in the past, an additional circular was usually issued by the Scottish Office and then the Scottish Executive exempting Abbeyfield, or taking into account its particular circumstances. I wrote to Wendy Alexander for clarification on this at the end of last week.
As Brian Monteith pointed out, another private organisation took such moral aspects into account. Although it was within the SFA's ability to do the same, it has not done so.
Those officers illustrate an example of the creative accounting and deceitful presentation that are hallmarks of the Labour Government and the Scottish Executive.
As it stands, the bill allows Scottish ministers some flexibility in appointing the day of abolition. We will be able to take account of the number of notices and agreements being registered by superiors and the number of applications to the Lands Tribunal under section 19.
Obviously, we have common ground with that committee and we should meet with it soon to discuss how it is addressing the issue and how we can learn from each other.We are interested in social security, and the Social Security Committee holds the Westminster Government to account on that matter. We have common ground with that committee as well.