This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
I think that the World Food Programme stated that it is not the bombing that is stopping the food getting through, but the activities of the Taliban regime, which are far more blocking.
We must provide good activities for them—both organised youth activities and facilities such as youth cafes, which provide good bases for informal activities and for youth projects such as Streetwork.
If the debate is a non-Executive debate, the member who moves the motion will, in general, get the same amount of time to speak as the Executive would get.
Charlie McCreevy made it clear that, in this respect, the key priorities must be competitiveness, skills, infrastructure and getting more people into work; however, in Scotland, we need national targets for such activity.
However, does Mr Galbraith agree that, in getting to the objectives that the Executive has set itself for active primary schools, it might need to consider the effect of budgeting, which primary schools have to cope with now?