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.
Giving local councils the opportunity to vary income tax and having wide variations in local income tax would produce a lot of problems for local economies.
We must examine those crucial issues if we are to make any headway.As Pauline McNeill and others made clear, community programmes offer us evidence that there are alternatives. Community programmes produce a lower reoffending rate than prison does.
The response that we got to the report that Adrienne Hunt produced was encouraging in that it was accepted that there was an issue and that the SPS has a role to play.
I will move amendment 350A, on the basis that the minister has accepted the need for further work on amendment 350 and I wish to give her the maximum encouragement to produce appropriate wording at stage 3, when she has every chance of receiving my support.
We have given a commitment that we will undertake a case-by-case study of verification of the quality marks that people already have; only people who can produce such evidence will be involved.
Moreover, PACE Youth Theatre, which is Scotland's largest youth theatre, involves between 1,500 and 2,000 young people in drama and arts and helps to engage other young people by producing plays about bullying and drugs.
Regulation of the media and broadcasting industry is a key issue for Grampian Television, which plays a distinct role and has produced award-winning programmes. However, the history of Grampian Television illustrates some of the challenges that regional identity in Scotland faces.
I know how much Mr Gibson hates to hear me say that, but the consultation will provide further information that will allow us to produce appropriate regulations. Deleting section 7(2)(l) would be inappropriate.