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If we write to any organisation, we expect to get a reply within 20 days. If that happens this month, the petition will no doubt be back before the committee sometime in April.
Despite what Lord Lawson might say, climate change is not going to be reversed; if anything, it is likely to get worse and the impacts that it is producing will get worse.
I guess that the group would have to agree to that. Could you get Scotland’s Learning Partnership to ascribe a value to the benefit that you would get from that provision?
We will probably have to get to the bottom of that. Might it be possible to get a little more information on that so that we can compare the experience in Dumfries and Galloway with that in other areas?
The reason for the difference does not readily leap out at me from the material but I will get back to him on the matter. I am grateful for that.My second and perhaps slightly more straightforward question relates to Scottish Government staff costs.
I do not think that anybody anticipated that we would get to a situation where so many people were parked on methadone with no likelihood of getting off it.
That is economic madness.Of course, it is not just RBS that is up to those tricks. Lloyds Banking Group is getting rid of 1,300 staff across the United Kingdom, many of them in Scotland.