This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
We have a huge work load and there will be terrible pressure on us—especially as this is the first Scottish Parliament—to do our very best and to do it earnestly. However, we lose sight of the big picture at our peril—Europe will come to mean absolutely nothing to the people who live in it and who turned their back on it at the elections.
PFI, almost by fluke, started to identify what is important about good procurement: aiming for best value for money over the life of a project, not the lowest price, and allocating risks where they can best be managed.
It is right that the Scottish Executive and the Parliament's committees should ask us to get best value from the money that we spend and to think of best value as being not just about money but about good services.
The home safety committee of the Scottish Accident Prevention Council has the best motives—it sees the proposal as the best way to deal with home safety in Scotland.