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.
I am expecting a response to my earlier letter. I will write again following this meeting. If we do not get an appropriate response we will come back to the matter.
The evidence to the Education Committee was that that problem is large; it was also picked up in the HMIE report.The point that was made several times in the earlier discussion about looking to the future was important to how we approached our report and is important to how we intend to do our follow-up work. We intend to work closely with HMIE in determining how we approach our follow-up.
However, we intend to achieve full implementation of the bill before the end of the year, or sooner, if feasible. Following the implementation of the bill, we will need to monitor the effects of the new provisions.
You formalised the discussion in the following week. We agreed that the convener should put it on the following week's agenda, which he could have done anyway.