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.
We must ensure that there is proper proportionality between all parties, which means that no party should get more than its fair share and no party should get less than that.
Because the auditor is able to comment only on treatment by the board, not on treatment by the contractor, we might get some variations in interpretation.
One could take the view that that is just to avoid our getting too involved, but I think that in this case the Executive is genuinely considering the matter.
—Official Report, Local Government Committee, 10 September 2002; c 3206.The fact that we have taken well over two years to get even to this stage is, quite frankly, unacceptable.