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The Executive is keen to make progress in such matters and is giving active consideration to establishing, with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities, a joint working group to examine ways in which we can harmonise the schemes.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
27 October 2006
Although the poor would be the biggest beneficiaries—those pupils who get free school meals now would get an even better school meal in future under this bill—those who are cut out just now, who do not get free school meals, would suddenly start getting free school meals.We have a long-term aim.
Whatever reservations we have about the Scottish Executive, it gets things done. The Welsh suffered considerably in the first 12 months of the Assembly's existence from not being able to get things done.
To deal with the case we would have to ask the Crown Office to deliver the court papers to us. The committee cannot get involved in such a situation. The Crown Office would probably not allow it.
The idea of area waste plans is that they will allow local authorities to get together. The £2.5 million that I am allocating from April next year is intended to let them get on with that process.
We want to challenge our young people and our families, to work with them and to get the best out of them, rather than to tolerate behaviour that is unacceptable to communities and deeply damaging to the children concerned.