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Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (19 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: I would ask the First Minister who he thinks should be the next manager of the Scottish football team, but I will leave that to Tavish Scott. To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Prime Minister. (S3F-2019)

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (19 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: I was alarmed and appalled when I discovered this week that, of 1,500 children who were admitted to the Royal hospital for sick children in Glasgow, more than 150 were suffering from malnutrition. That is a disgrace and an affront in modern-day Scotland. However, Government statistics that were recently obtained by the Conservatives claim that only 48 children across the whole of Scotland...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (19 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: It is worrying that the First Minister does not know the true extent of the problem. I urge him to find out, and to do so quickly, because unless we know the extent of the problem, we will certainly not know how bad it is or how to deal with it. Let me make one suggestion to the First Minister. In the meantime, we can start by having more health visitors, who are the key to preventing child...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (12 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. (S3F-2001)

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (12 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: I will remind the First Minister of what some leading Scottish educationists said recently. In September, Professor Lindsay Paterson of the University of Edinburgh said: "In mathematics, science and reading, Scotland is mediocre by international standards ... the situation is dismal." Yesterday, Professor Eric Wilkinson of the University of Glasgow said: "In Scotland, we are ... stuck in a...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (12 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The First Minister may want to sit in his bunker and ignore those who know what they are talking about, but one would have thought that a significant and interesting proposal from someone senior in his own party, such as David Berry, would at least have merited a response from the education minister, the hapless Fiona Hyslop. What did we get? On Monday, there was nothing; on Tuesday, there...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (12 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: rose—

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (5 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Prime Minister. (S3F-1977)

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (5 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The Audit Scotland report on public finances that was published today is extremely worrying in identifying up to £3.8 billion in budget cuts. That must be a wake-up call for the Scottish Government. The report is Labour's legacy, but it is the Scottish National Party Government's problem. It blows out of the water the First Minister's pretence that he can prevent budget cuts in Scotland....

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (5 Nov 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The figures are not my rhetorical invention; they are in an independent report and cover the next four to five years of the Parliament's activities and the Government's responsibilities. If the First Minister is not prepared to accept an entirely independent report on our public finances, how can anyone look to his Government to provide leadership through these desperately difficult times?...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (29 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. (S3F-1954)

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (29 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The irony of Labour masquerading as the party of business is obvious to everyone except Iain Gray. This is a man who was such an impressive minister for enterprise that he lost his seat.

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (29 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: This week, the Scottish National Party's pretence of being a business-friendly party collapsed. Iain McMillan of CBI Scotland said: "At the moment there are more harmful things for business than positive ones from the Scottish Government. The SNP is talking the talk, but not walking the walk." David Watt, head of the Institute of Directors in Scotland, criticised the treatment of Diageo, and...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (29 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The First Minister and I may have jointly demonstrated to the workers of Kilmarnock that we were concerned and that we wished to represent those concerns to Diageo, but the difference between us is that I do not believe in telling business what to do. The First Minister thought that he could get away with that and failed. This is the business-friendly First Minister who on the one hand...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (8 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Prime Minister. (S3F-1936)

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (8 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: We were all devastated by the tragic news that two teenage girls from the Good Shepherd Centre in Bishopton took their own lives earlier this week. For me, the tragedy was particularly poignant because Bishopton is my home and I am a former member of the board of management for the centre. The centre takes in young girls who have a range of hugely complex needs and come from the most...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Prime Minister (Meetings) (8 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: I thank the First Minister for that full response. Having spoken to people in Bishopton, I know that there is anxiety that there will be a witch hunt that is more concerned with finding someone to blame than with finding a way forward from the tragedy. A chaplain to the centre said to me in a text: "We only have 11 residential girls and to lose two means we are a community and family in...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (1 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: I associate Conservative members with Johann Lamont's comments about the late Bill Speirs. To ask the First Minister when he will next meet the Secretary of State for Scotland. (S3F-1919)

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (1 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The health of our children is hugely important. The Scottish National Party manifesto promised that every pupil would get "2 hours of quality PE each week" and would have "free ... access to council swimming pools." The manifesto also promised that the SNP would establish "an innovative sport volunteer programme" and that there would be more "centres of sporting excellence". By my...

Scottish Parliament: First Minister's Question Time: Secretary of State for Scotland (Meetings) (1 Oct 2009)

Annabel Goldie: The face in the seat may have changed but the message has not. That answer to my question has the hollow ring of more broken election promises from the SNP. We cannot play politics with our children's future. The class size pledge is in tatters, discipline is not being dealt with and now the SNP is reneging on our children's health and wellbeing. I ask the Deputy First...