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The use of antidepressants has been an area of focused activity over the last few years, providing us with a more developed understanding of how they are being prescribed by GPs in Scotland.
Can the First Minister tell the Parliament whether the Lord Advocate will publish the reasons why the Crown Office did not pursue charges against Nicola Sturgeon? We are getting into incredibly inappropriate territory with Rachael Hamilton’s question.
I will suspend while we establish what happened in that vote, and I will get back to you in a few minutes. 17:36 Meeting suspended. 17:38 On resuming— We need a thorough debrief of what happened in that vote to make sure that everybody, including me, has confidence that the vote was carried out effectively and robustly.
However, if somebody did not complete the programme just by habitual non-participation or non-engagement, the parameters of the regulations would be applied and the local authority would have to get somebody else to be the headteacher.
If we can have very short questions and short answers, we might get through some of them. Does the cabinet secretary accept that the public do not understand that we can have one police force for a railway platform and a separate police force for a road that is a few yards away?
None of us likes to see an IT system getting out of control. However, what the audit work and the inquiries uncovered, which was that a member of staff was aware of omissions in the contract documentation that were not brought to the attention of the chief executive until much later, was a serious failure of governance and accountability.