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Official Report
Meeting date:
9 May 2001
Plenary, 09 May 2001
Basically, principle 5 boils down to: "Nanny knows best"—that is what that sell-out principle tells us.
Official Report
Meeting date:
4 April 2001
Social Justice Committee, 04 Apr 2001
We should record our thanks to the clerks and all others involved in the process, which is tortuous at best. Such a tight time scale seems unnecessarily helpful.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 December 1999
Transport and the Environment Committee, 01 Dec 1999
We hope that the Scottish Government, along with the national Government, will consider the best way in which to deal with that situation.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 September 2005
Edinburgh Tram (Line One) Bill Committee, 13 Sep 2005
Do you still consider the promoter's route to be the best of the three routes? Once again, solely in terms of alignment geometry, I believe that the promoter's route is the best option.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
15 November 2005
S2W-20206
Administration(a) The amount spent by each NHS board in each of the last five years on administration, expressed both as (i) a percentage of total budget, and (ii) per head of population was: 2000-01 2001-02 2002-03 (£000) % Cost Per Head (£) (£000) % Cost Per Head (£) (£000) % Cost Per Head (£) Argyll and Clyde 4,317 1.02% 10.19 4,228 1.03% 9.98 4,388 1.01% 10.43 Ayrshire and Arran 3,185 0.88% 8.53 3,267 0.92% 8.75 2,257 0.59% 6.13 Borders 1,599 1.50% 14.96 1,636 1.61% 15.30 1,539 1.40% 14.39 Dumfries and Galloway 1,808 1.18% 12.40 1,844 1.24% 12.65 1,277 0.80% 8.64 Fife 2,862 0.92% 8.17 3,327 1.09% 9.49 2,583 0.80% 7.39 Forth Valley 2,514 0.96% 9.04 2,605 1.04% 9.37 1,888 0.70% 6.76 Grampian 4,217 0.88% 8.06 4,355 0.95% 8.32 3,456 0.69% 6.57 Glasgow 7,461 0.77% 8.25 8,043 0.85% 8.89 9,449 0.91% 10.88 Highland 2,827 1.34% 13.55 2,875 1.40% 13.78 2,824 1.27% 13.52 Lanarkshire 3,681 0.73% 6.55 3,919 0.76% 6.97 2,852 0.53% 5.16 Lothian 6,405 0.89% 8.17 6,747 0.94% 8.61 4,486 0.60% 5.76 Orkney 709 3.09% 36.40 765 3.50% 39.27 589 2.47% 30.65 Shetland 645 2.34% 28.74 619 2.29% 27.58 611 2.02% 27.82 Tayside 3,632 0.86% 9.42 4,683 1.11% 12.15 2,721 0.61% 7.00 Western Isles 1,313 3.29% 48.31 1,562 3.82% 57.47 1,446 3.23% 54.67 47,175 50,475 42,366 2003-04 2004-05 (£000) % Cost Per Head (£) (£000) % Cost Per Head (£) Argyll and Clyde 4,913 1.04% 11.78 5,588 1.06% n/a Ayrshire and Arran 2,747 0.66% 7.48 2,938 0.58% n/a Borders 1,427 1.15% 13.18 1,592 1.08% n/a Dumfries and Galloway 1,777 0.99% 12.07 1,898 0.89% n/a Fife 3,738 1.03% 10.62 4,306 1.01% n/a Forth Valley 2,165 0.75% 7.74 2,619 0.77% n/a Grampian 4,140 0.78% 7.91 3,578 0.59% n/a Glasgow 12,410 1.13% 14.32 11,721 0.92% n/a Highland 3,065 1.25% 14.66 4,858 1.60% n/a Lanarkshire 4,028 0.71% 7.28 4,380 0.66% n/a Lothian 5,010 0.54% 6.42 4,168 0.44% n/a Orkney 626 2.44% 32.42 640 2.06% n/a Shetland 641 2.02% 29.31 736 2.04% n/a Tayside 3,909 0.83% 10.11 5,162 0.94% n/a Western Isles 1,522 3.24% 58.31 2,112 3.91% n/a 52,118 56,296 AdministrationThe boards’ spending on administration costs are taken from note 6 of the published annual accounts for each respective financial year.The guidance issued on administration costs is based on the Code of Practice for Best...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 February 2005
S2W-13916
It is an expectation set out in the guidance that, as part of a wider strategic approach to address housing need, alongside neighbourhood renewal and community planning initiatives, their strategy should consider whether the existing public and private housing stock is being managed to best effect and if there are management solutions based on that stock to...
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 March 2007
Procedures Committee, 06 Mar 2007
We brought back what we thought was the best idea from those Parliaments and put it up for a trial, but the bureau is turning the whole thing down.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 February 2007
Audit Committee, 13 Feb 2007
That would not be right for the young people of Scotland, who should get the best. We are training plenty of teachers and we should encourage those who are very good to become chartered teachers.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 June 2006
Enterprise and Culture Committee, 06 Jun 2006
Moreover, giving people the additional time off could cost up to £180 million.If, as I suggested previously, the St Andrew's day holiday were a substitute instead of an additional holiday, we could get the best of both worlds by securing a proportion of the additional retail spend without incurring any additional costs.
Official Report
Meeting date:
13 December 2005
Audit Committee, 13 Dec 2005
Accountable officers, as I am sure the committee will recall, have a duty to ensure that best value is sought from the use of resources, and they must obtain written instructions from the relevant minister if they consider that any action that they require to take is inconsistent with the proper performance of their duties.
