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Making everyone apply each year even if they have done nothing wrong is disproportionate and will give NatureScot a huge amount of unnecessary extra admin when they are already stretched.
What we have to do is trade off the difference that an extra pound of spending on health will make to every indicator in the national performance framework versus the difference that an extra pound of spending on economic development will make.
Parliament needs to know what exactly it thinks people should not be able to say and what counts as stirring up. If you start relying too much on extra-legal stuff such as training, you move out of that world.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what its stated position is on extra-judicial killings. Scotland sits within the international legal framework of human rights standards developed since the end of World War 2.
Six out of 10 teachers work more than an extra day every week, and more than half of all teachers experience mental health issues because of their job.
I have paid 43 years National Insurance”— that is the important point; she paid that money— “and I feel this is a total injustice that have to wait not 18 months, but an extra 6 years to get my state pension.”