This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
That is a challenge in the wider public appointments process, and the Scottish Government has set out its desire to see greater diversity and a greater number of women on public bodies. We have set a date—2020—by when we want 50:50 representation.
For example, the rail infrastructure budget has been cut by £33 million, and the newly launched Scottish National Investment Bank’s budget is already down by £36 million.
In more affluent Stepps, where many older people live, the last bank in town, the Royal Bank of Scotland, is being stripped from the community, and those people also face the closure of the only care home that covers the whole village area.
The biggest change in public attitudes in Great Britain since the early 1980s is towards our banks. In the early 1980s about 90 per cent of people trusted banks and now about only 10 per cent do.That aside, the principal secular change—by which I mean a change that has pretty much kept on going in a consistent direct...