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To ensure tenders representing the best long term value for money are selected, many factors are taken into account to determine the quality and price weightings applied to the tender evaluation.
Other colleagues are engaging on that matter, because my remit covers procurement specifically. To the best of my knowledge, there has been no movement to date, but, as you know, we are forever hopeful.
Certainly, in my interactions with stakeholders, there have been concerns that the regulations on conservation areas are not sufficiently robust and that there is significant opportunity to establish best practice, or at least to communicate where best practice is being achieved to other parts of the country.
We should not only reward nurses as best we possibly can, but ensure that those who are training to be nurses get all the support that we can possibly give them.
I believe very strongly that where there is a difference of opinion about the best way forward, the best thing to do is to allow people to choose the best way forward.
Freedom of movement across the EU is critically important in allowing us to attract the best research students and the best staff from across the EU to Scotland.