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Official Report
Meeting date:
4 February 2010
Plenary, 04 Feb 2010
As I am sure Michael McMahon will acknowledge, when council spending is rising as a percentage of the total Scottish budget year by year—that means that they are getting mair money as a percentage of the total, Michael—if cuts are taking place in councils throughout Scotland, that is because the total budget that is set by Westminster, which has a Labour Go...
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 January 2010
Plenary, 28 Jan 2010
Is it not the case that Barry White, chief executive of the Scottish Futures Trust, Unison, the Cuthberts and Professor Pollock have all said that the mechanism that the cabinet secretary and the Government are deploying is nothing but PPP by another name? Mr Kerr always gets on to more substantive ground when he moves off the pejorative but, even when he i...
Official Report
Meeting date:
28 January 2010
Plenary, 28 Jan 2010
The minister will be aware that, if a person is addicted to heroin, for example, their mind will be on getting their next fix, not on a training session on how to use naloxone, and that, if a person is overdosing, it is physically impossible for them to self-administer that life-saving antidote.
Official Report
Meeting date:
7 January 2010
Plenary, 07 Jan 2010
Scottish Literature Tae speir the Scottish Guivernment whit it wull dae tae mak shuir awbodie at the high scuil gets Scottish leiteratur.To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to ensure that every secondary pupil has access to Scottish literature.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2009
Plenary, 03 Dec 2009
At last, perhaps, the Liberal Democrats and every other party represented in the chamber will get behind the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning to see whether we can introduce those improvements for Scotland.
Official Report
Meeting date:
3 December 2009
Plenary, 03 Dec 2009
Can she explain why the draft budget contains proposals to cut the education and training budget from £157 million to £152 million, thereby undermining the NHS's ability to get the most from its staff? I know that James Kelly is not on the Health and Sport Committee, but if he cares to read the Official Report he will read extensive discussions between the ...
Official Report
Meeting date:
19 November 2009
Plenary, 19 Nov 2009
Indeed, the Justice Committee itself acknowledges that short sentences"have limited effect as a deterrent".The figures show that three quarters of those who are released from short sentences go on to reoffend within two years of getting out. In contrast, three out of five people who are sentenced to community punishment do not go on to reoffend over the sam...
Official Report
Meeting date:
5 November 2009
Plenary, 05 Nov 2009
We should bear it in mind that the claimant count information for the most recent quarter for which information is available shows that Scotland's figure is 2.7 per cent below that of England. That shows that we must be getting something right somewhere.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 October 2009
Plenary, 01 Oct 2009
The Parliament came together as one to pass the Sexual Offences (Scotland) Bill in order to address the problems that exist and the fact that far too many victims have been failed. It is important to get any legislative change right, especially with such substantial change in such an important area, with such significance for so many individuals.
Official Report
Meeting date:
1 October 2009
Plenary, 01 Oct 2009
Is it not time to cut through the morass of rail bureaucracy, which gets in the way? Network Rail has risk assessors; the local highway authority has responsibilities; and so do Transport Scotland, the rail regulator, the railway inspectorate, the Health and Safety Executive, the police and even the Scottish Law Commission.
