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Official Report
Meeting date:
16 January 2013
Meeting of the Parliament 16 January 2013
The member is right to highlight that early intervention is crucial to ensuring that—to use our own language—we get it right for every child. Indeed, my colleague Aileen Campbell has been busy in that respect.Schools and local authorities are doing many things on this matter.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 December 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 20 December 2012
Many communities are more than 40km from their nearest exchange.There is a strong commitment from the Scottish Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities and the Western Isles local authority to find solutions that ensure that the Western Isles get a fair deal. I discussed that very issue with COSLA representa...
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 December 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 19 December 2012
I had the pleasure last week of announcing additional funding of £1.8 million to help tackle the problem and to undertake necessary research so that we get on top of the problem and build on the substantial progress that has been made in recent times.
Official Report
Meeting date:
6 December 2012
Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee 06 December 2012
We need to keep a good political eye on that because the SPSO is the last port of call for many members of the public in getting what they believe to be justice.It would be good to find out a bit more about the SPSO’s thinking.
Official Report
Meeting date:
29 November 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 29 November 2012
She will then recognise—I do not know Labour’s current position on this—that, if we allow for the real-terms increase in the revenue funding of the health service, which presumably Labour now supports, despite not supporting it at the previous election, local government has a significant rising share of the rest of the available public spending in Scotland. When Labour gets down to acknowledging that, perhaps it will agree with a number of local government leaders, including—most famously—the former president of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, who is a member of the Labour Party and who was neverending in pointing out that the settlements that this Government and this finance minister are arriving at are significantly better than what local government faced under previous, less enlightened Administrations.
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 November 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 28 November 2012
The number of school students aged 15 to 18 getting college experience in 2010-11—the latest figures—was broadly the same as in 2007-08.There is no question but that college experience can benefit school pupils, but there is a need to ensure that colleges and local authorities are able to afford those things.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 November 2012
Subordinate Legislation Committee 20 November 2012
I agree and, again, reiterate the point that I made—to the boredom of others, perhaps—that, as the act is a new and difficult piece of legislation following attempts to reform crofting legislation over a number of sessions of the Parliament, it would be a great shame if the Government did not take the opportunity to get it absolutely right the first time ar...
Official Report
Meeting date:
14 November 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 14 November 2012
We recognise that work is a key social determinant of health and that one of the best ways of reducing inequalities in health in Scotland is to ensure that as many people who can work get the opportunity to do so. We support through NHS Health Scotland the Scottish centre for healthy working lives, which offers advice to employers on improving and promoting...
Official Report
Meeting date:
27 September 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 27 September 2012
Death rates have dropped by 40 per cent in 10 years, more patients are getting better treatment, and waiting times for treatment have fallen.
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 September 2012
Meeting of the Parliament 19 September 2012
Hopefully, the Scottish Government demonstrated its commitment during the recent dairy crisis, when our dairy farmers, quite rightly, were shouting about the fact that they were getting a very raw deal on their share of every pound spent on milk in the supermarkets and elsewhere.
