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As Barnardo’s pointed out in its briefing for today, and as the Government motion acknowledges, the rapid development of digital technology is an incredible opportunity for our children, not just a danger.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many assaults have been committed against drivers of one-person rapid response ambulance vehicles in each of the last five years.
I begin by paying tribute to Jackson Carlaw, who is undoubtedly one of our finest parliamentarians. I can see him making fun of the compliment that I have just paid him.
If I say this, people who have not received much funding will raise concerns, but Creative Scotland moved right at the start to put together bridging bursaries. There was a lot of rapid reaction and response in the sector; it moved very swiftly in a lot of areas.
We need to identify where electric vehicle uptake will be most rapid—we can make good guesses about where uptake is most likely on the basis of demographics and current car ownership—and then roll out the infrastructure in a targeted way in residential streets to get better value for money, rather than the current piecemeal approach that leaves it to experi...
The problem first became evident very early on, and we adopted the system that allowed ready and rapid administration of grants; in other words, the efficacy of using the valuation roll was largely a function of the ability to administer payments rapidly.
To enable us to learn the lessons of the approach that was taken to awarding qualifications in 2020, I acted quickly to commission Professor Mark Priestley to conduct a rapid and independent review of the events that followed the cancellation of the 2020 examination diet.