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It is not, therefore, a detailed audit of the governance arrangements of James Watt College. The best source of up-to-date and reliable information, independent of the college, on those would come from the Scottish funding council.
In particular, I ask her to respond to the committee's request for her to come back to us at a later date on the conclusion of negotiations with the Scottish funding council.
Paragraph 87 highlights the lack of any progress on telehealth systems to date: “The approach adopted by Government to encourage health boards in the use of telehealth systems, to date, has been largely unsuccessful.
If someone taps them on the shoulder and says, "Come along to this meeting, sign this document and there will be nine grand in your bank account in 14 days", many will say, "Thank you very much."
EU countries have signed up to a common rulebook for financial services, and this observance of common rules entitles their companies to get a passport to operate anywhere in the EU.
Non-EU banks and financial institutions cannot rely on “passporting.”
The argument against such an approach tends to be that companies, councils or whatever need the best people to run them, but it is clear that the best people were not running the banks in 2008 and have not been running Volkswagen in 2015.
The civilised society that we have today is one that thinks it is okay to leave people in that situation and thinks it is okay to have people relying on food banks in order to survive. Let us think about this.
On tax and spending, the challenge is enormous. Instead of simply banking the annual cheque, it will be for this Parliament to decide how it manages its own account.
We have a choice to make.Hands up those on the SNP benches who believe that providing an advantage for people such as bankers is right when food banks are appearing in our towns and cities.