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We went back to all the people who came to the events; they left their contact details so that they could get feedback on what we had decided, based on the consultation process.
We always tried to engage with the issue and get the interesting stuff out there at the earliest point, and we encouraged MSPs to contact us at a later date if they wanted to follow up on anything that they had heard.
In September, Skills Development Scotland will launch our skills force, which is an online facility offering a single point of contact and a one-stop resource with all the information that an employer needs about what is available to them both nationally and locally.
On the practicalities, it probably speeds up the process if we liaise with the Crown Office to ask from whom it obtained the information and to ask it either to effect an introduction or to give us contact details. That is probably quicker than our seeking to discover the information with our limited resources.
Between 1999 and 2003—the first parliamentary session—several local service users contacted me to ask how the Highland Community Care Forum was being used to provide front-line services such as carers and support.
In the existing structures, I was pleased to see Santander buying RBS branches, because that should provide a strong competitor—although mainly in England—in the medium-sized corporate business, which can only be to everybody’s good.As for funding emerging green industries, that is the same issue as every technology has had since I ever knew anything about ...
The death causes a loss, but the question is whether that loss falls on the deceased’s family or on the insurers and, through them, employers and, ultimately, the people who buy their products. It is a question of who bears the loss.
In short, we simply cannot take the view that something must come from Scotland before we buy it, however much we might wish to do that.All procurement contracts are structured with the desire to deliver effective service and value for money.
There is a difference between the amount that is said to be available to be fished sustainably and the economics of a French or Spanish market. If everyone stopped buying nephrops, the fleet could take up just 10 per cent of the TAC and still flood the market.