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In Holyrood, Alex Salmond supports literacy but, in Edinburgh, the SNP cuts it. Was the First Minister trying to get into the "Guinness Book of Records" for the fastest broken promise ever?
The amount probably relates to the sort of figures that would be imposed in respect of fixed penalties rather than court disposals in European countries.How do you get round the fact that some countries may have a rather more robust approach to collection of fines than seems to exist in this jurisdiction at present?
I am not clear about the seriousness of the asbestos issue in this case, but I know that when we cannot reassure parents they get worried and start to lose trust.
Among other things, if the rules were in a code, if you like, that would get round any ECHR issues, which the convener rightly touched on—it would be a different sort of ball game.
First, we need to consider what lottery funding we can get back. That option is excluded at the moment, because of other lottery funding distribution priorities.