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The clerks have produced a paper that sets out the position in relation to several petitions that are still active and the rate at which new petitions are being received.
The worst-affected communities can be assured that there will be tangible benefits from the results of police activity and from the tremendous amounts of information that members of the public have provided through Crimestoppers.
It might also be helpful if we asked Audit Scotland and HMIE what changes they anticipate in their activities and in their advice to councils as a result of the minister's letter.
In April 2006, it reported that it had met the targets set in "Determined to Succeed"—every pupil from primary 1 to secondary 6 now has an annual entitlement to enterprise activities. Each of the 10 school clusters in North Ayrshire has more than five business partnership agreements in place.
Nevertheless, the gap is growing, which is a big challenge for us—hence programmes and activity such as prevention 2010. Glasgow is also no longer the coronary capital of Europe, and teenage pregnancy and smoking rates are reducing.
I am pleased to say that the Scottish Qualifications Authority, which is also very active in China, has invited Elmwood College to take part in a pilot project to assess students in Chinese.
Is the Executive minded to become actively involved with consumers and producer organisations in trying to encourage supermarkets, which are making enormous profits, to share some of those profits with people in agriculture whose incomes are collapsing?
Offenders (Employment) To ask the Scottish Executive what steps are being taken to ensure that each person who has completed a custodial sentence has the best opportunity of becoming legitimately economically active and what mechanisms are in place or are planned to record their employment status.
As we recognise in our programme, we need a civil service that is more outward looking and that is prepared to engage much more actively with key stakeholders. We know the worth of an open and inclusive civil service and I can assure the member that we will continue to pursue those aims.