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It is important that we reform LECs and make them more accountable, but we should do so with an agenda that is firm, focused and business-like in approach.
I am not a lawyer, but it seems to me that it was entirely predictable that permission would be sought and granted, based on Mike Tyson's most recent visit only a few months ago, when by all accounts his behaviour was satisfactory.
Grampian Enterprise spent a significant amount of money on television and marketing campaigns to encourage those people to access the individual learning accounts pilot programme. The result was a big fat zero, and I was very disappointed to hear representatives from GEL saying that it would be very difficult to promote individual learning accounts and to encourage that client group to take them up.
Before we joined the European Community, EC countries accounted for less than a quarter of our manufactured goods exports; now they account for nearly two thirds.
The National Trust, which was constituted by a private act of Parliament, was the only such body around in 1976, which is why it was included in the legislation.I just wonder whether it might be appropriate that the Scottish ministers be given the option of allowing other trusts or community bodies that own land to have their aims and objectives taken into account when the Land Court is considering whether it should refuse permission for a purchase.
We will have opportunities if we develop systems in which trust runs from the Executive to authorities and then to schools and from head teachers down to the classroom, and in which we believe that people are trying to do the best that they can and are developing systems that demonstrate accountability. You talked earlier about models elsewhere.
The way in which clinics operate must take that into account and we must consider whether extra clinics should be provided for follow-up information and to give patients and families the opportunity to make sense of matters and ask questions.
I expect there to be a range of costed recommendations in relation to nutritional standards, which take into account not simply food groups but matters such as portion size.