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I am of the view that we do not currently live in a world without barriers to learning, so it is necessary to have a system that has built-in additional support.
From the perspective of some victims, I can understand that sentence discounting for early guilty pleas is also a good thing. We may just have to live with some of the uncertainties, even though early guilty pleas and victim statements may not necessarily mesh well together.
We also need to make it clear that it is possible to combine working for a living with public service. We do not have enough people who are in employment, particularly private sector employment—although the numbers are growing—as opposed to those who are retired or unemployed.
Funding for local authorities and hypothecation or ring-fencing for transport are live issues on which the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, in particular, has very strong views.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many households living in residential caravans or mobile homes, excluding gypsies/travellers, do not have access to (a) water, (b) heating and (c) electricity.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 January 2005
However, I am sympathetic to Frances Curran's arguments, particularly given that children who are living in poverty are not currently receiving free school meals.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many of its officials were directly involved, either in a monitoring or consultative role, during raids to remove the children of asylum seekers living in Scotland in each year since 2002.