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We need shorter bidding programmes, more standardisation and greater simplification. Are you saying that we need a P book—a core procedural document to which people can refer as a guide?
The powers of the manager are detailed: they are listed from paragraph 9(1)(a) of the proposed new schedule to paragraph 9(1)(p). I would like more time to go through the amendment, especially where it concerns the selling off and disposing of land.
—Official Report, Written Answers, 18 February 2003; p 3010.I understand that, but the minister cannot stand in this chamber and say that there will be free travel for the elderly and leave it to local operators to decide what is free and what is not free.
—Official Report, Written Answers, 21 August 200; Vol 7, p 574.The ministers do not know what the situation is with regard to clinical errors in our hospitals, what the implications for patient care are and what the costs are.
If other funds had been brought in, the matter could have been considered in the round. The P&O contract was coming to an end. We should, perhaps, have sat down and thought about the best means of transport to Orkney and Shetland, rather than just about replacing the boats because they were getting old.
It is important that the first steps are taken to involve what might be called the politically active—with a small p—older people in the deliberations of the Parliament's committees so that the older person's perspective is gleaned and can be put to the Parliament.As I said earlier, a lot of work is going into reaching those parts of the older population th...
—Official Report, Written Answers, 12 November 2002; p 2195. The minister is saying that the fact that there are already so many controls on the crofting landlord is a reason to give the absolute right to buy.
—Official Report, Written Answers, 14 November 2002; p 2244. Will the Scottish Executive please explain the difference between an adjacent salmon fishing and a fishing that is exercisable from croft land?