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If we look one step ahead and imagine that there is something in the bill that would allow us to take account of the rural situation—not an exception, but something that took relevant account of the situation—how would we make it happen?
A study is being carried out by the Accounts Commission, to compare the conditions of local authority child care workers with those in the private sector.
Some 300,000 British and Commonwealth soldiers—more than a quarter of the troops deployed—lay dead, injured or missing. On the other side of the lines, almost as many German soldiers lay dead or seriously injured.
Council Tax (Exempt Dwellings) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2006 (SSI 2006/402)Road User Charging Schemes (Keeping of Accounts and Relevant Expenses) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 Revocation Regulations 2006 (SSI 2006/431) Agenda item 4 is consideration of two further items of subordinate legislation.
I believe that such action is discourteous to the Parliament and denies other MSPs the opportunity to scrutinise the work of the Scottish Executive and to hold it to account. Will you consider whether it might be appropriate to introduce sanctions against those MSPs who continually fail to lodge questions?
For example, if you were asked to account to the committee for spending plans in future years, would you be held directly accountable and be supported by staff from the transport agency, in addition to civil servants?
I seek the committee's agreement that we go into a short private session for items 2 and 5, which are on internal committee business and our response to the written agreements on the format of accounts and powers of direction that were sent to us by the minister.