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Official Report
Meeting date:
7 November 2006
Finance Committee, 07 Nov 2006
Each local authority provides and funds breakfasts differently and collects information about the costs differently. Basically, we had to make our best estimate on the basis of the evidence that we were given.We have costed the price of each breakfast at between £1 and £1.26—that is the price range that we were given for breakfasts.
Official Report
Meeting date:
31 October 2006
Finance Committee, 31 Oct 2006
I was a member of the original hungry for success expert panel, as I think it was called in those days, which visited Midlothian in its efforts to develop best practice throughout Scotland. The local authority was doing certain things—as were others—that we built into the process.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 October 2006
Local Government and Transport Committee, 03 Oct 2006
There will be a bit of work to do on how best to manage the first project to go through the new procedure, but that is the essential core of making a more efficient process that delivers the time savings that we are seeking and provides a better process for the promoter and the Government in seeking to meet their transport objectives.
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 September 2006
Enterprise and Culture Committee, 05 Sep 2006
At least we can continue without the background music.Jo Burns was in the middle of her answer to Susan Deacon's question. It is probably best if you start again. Okay. The two issues that Susan Deacon asked about were deliverability and legislative consequences or legislative importance.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 June 2006
Plenary, 01 Jun 2006
Resolved, That the Parliament applauds the fact that the Scottish education system is recognised by international benchmarking exercises as being amongst the best in the world; recognises the commitment of the Scottish Executive to sustained improvement in education and the biggest school buildings modernisation programme in our history, unprecedented stabi...
Official Report
Meeting date:
21 March 2006
Enterprise and Culture Committee, 21 Mar 2006
Members will recall that the Debt Arrangement and Attachment (Scotland) Act 2002 provides for different types of attachment order according to the degree of pressure that the creditor can apply.Notwithstanding Susan McPhee's final comment, if land attachment is to be introduced, a level of debt—not necessarily £1,500—would have to be fixed.A matter that should be considered, although it did not emerge in the discussion, is whether land attachment should be used only as a last resort when all other diligences have been exercised, given that many members of the committee regard the measure as draconian.Much would depend on the sheriff, who would be in the invidious position of defining those difficult words, "harsh" and "reasonable", which are slippery at the best...
Official Report
Meeting date:
16 June 2005
Plenary, 16 Jun 2005
I have heard local area co-ordinators described as "the glue that makes the system work" and as people's "best friends". They are very much on the side of the person with the learning disability and they offer a person-centred approach.
Official Report
Meeting date:
18 May 2005
Environment and Rural Development Committee, 18 May 2005
I am not sure that human behaviour is always best addressed through legislative wording.
Official Report
Meeting date:
26 April 2005
Finance Committee, 26 Apr 2005
In some cases, grant aid will not be the best way of ensuring that that happens.
Official Report
Meeting date:
20 April 2005
Justice 1 Committee, 20 Apr 2005
The minister gave an example of a chap saying to a girl, "If I buy you dinner, will you have sex with me?" Although that is not the best chat-up line in the world, it is an explicit one.
