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Co-operating effectively to provide the best quality specialist services may mean, in some cases and in some services, that we cannot provide services in every part of Scotland, and it may even mean that Scots will go south of the border.
Section 23—Role of School Board in raising standards and improving quality of education Amendment 66 is grouped with and will be debated with amendment 118. The amendment may seem to quibble and only to amend the wording but it considers whether school boards should reinforce Government policies.
Does your ruling about naming civil servants apply to spin-doctors or special advisers, who may come in for justifiable criticism from members of Parliament in the chamber and in committees?
The fifth line of the fourth paragraph of annexe A states that the Standards Committee "may refuse recognition if it considers that a group does not comply with the rules or it may".At that point, I would like to insert the words, "defer consideration to seek clarification from the group about its application."
I want it to be the case that if any funds are given to a body, the Auditor General may—I stress may—have access to the accounts of that body in order to account for the expenditure of public funds.If any figure is in the bill—be it 50 per cent, 30 per cent or 20 per cent—the expenditure will not be publicly accounte...
Will the minister offer a visible and demonstrable sign of the Executive's resolve to provide a global strategy for addressing the problem? Miss Goldie may or may not be aware that I have responsibility for the Scottish Executive's drugs policy across all departments.