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Rhona Brankin: ...that the level of funding currently provided is less than we would need to meet our ongoing additional day to day operational costs." Midlothian Council, too, will have problems. If the Scottish Government was to put its money where its mouth is on the issue, Fiona Hyslop would be telling us that she was funding a capital programme to upgrade dining halls around Scotland to cope with the...
John Swinney: Just a second. In that note, the Treasury said that the Scottish Government was ahead of the game in bringing forward affordable housing expenditure. What it says, Mr Kerr, is that we got there first. We planned the acceleration of affordable housing expenditure before the UK Government got anywhere near doing so. In addition, on 21 October, the First Minister and I raised with the Secretary...
Lord Lee of Trafford: ...Government will give a real example of working with the French. Perhaps the Minister could refer to that when she winds up. At the last major defence debate in this House on 22 November 2007, the Government was flayed by our former Chiefs of the Defence Staff in an unprecedented way. Since then, the media and general public have come out strongly in support of our Armed Forces, which...
Paul Clark: ... 30 October this year, the independent Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) published its "Determination of Network Rail's outputs and funding for 2009-14", concluding that the funding committed by the Government was sufficient to allow Network Rail to deliver the outputs we have specified. The Office of Rail Regulation has set Network Rail targets to reduce the disruption to passengers from...
Linda Fabiani: ...prepared and finalised. However, I take on board what Peter Peacock said: the plans cannot be left on a shelf—they must be constantly monitored, refreshed and renewed where necessary. The Scottish Government was one of the initial bodies to receive a notice to produce a Gaelic language plan from Bòrd na Gàidhlig. Our plan will set out the measures that are to be taken on the use of...
Michael Russell: .... For example, the regular public awareness campaigns on the dangers of introducing the parasite go on. Most recently, the BBC went on a G salaris fact-finding mission to Norway. The Scottish Government was there too, and we now have a new video on YouTube, which helps. We will continue to push the matter. Dr Murray looks surprised. We continually place on YouTube videos that give...
Nigel Don: ...the future of the system, which is a significant part of the looked-after children process. I quote from the consultation document to make a point about the reason for the consultation: "When local government was reorganised in 1996, the structure of the Children's Hearings system was partially reformed. The Children's Reporters were taken out of local control and placed within a...
David Heath: ...with the Government's intention—if I am not being naive in taking such a generous view—but with what they proposed as a solution. In the Bill passed by the Commons, the solution proposed by the Government was entirely unacceptable. As we have said on a number of occasions, it was unacceptable because the Executive were taking the decision in cases where the problem was the death of an...
Robert Brown: ...—and the SNP. I ask the Cabinet Secretary for Justice or the Minister for Community Safety to spell out the SNP Government's position on its responsibilities. The Liberal Democrats' position in government was to refuse to allow the proposed ID card to be used to access devolved services. Is that the SNP Government's position? Will whichever minister sums up the debate take the...
Mitchel McLaughlin: ...achieved. Given the commitment to address regional disparities, will the Minister inform the House of the total number of jobs delivered outside the Belfast metropolitan area since the Programme for Government was agreed?
Jeremy Purvis: ...when he said that the SFT was the result of work with local councils, Glasgow City Council and the City of Edinburgh Council had told the Parliament the previous day that they did not know what the Government was planning to put in place. Two months on, after a meeting with Sir Angus Grossart, COSLA sent council chief executives and leaders a bulletin saying: "However it was clear from Sir...
Robert Brown: ...zero-waste strategy is highly regrettable? Can he comment on the fact that, after five meetings of the Government's zero-waste strategy think tank, the last minutes indicated that the Scottish Government was to have prepared mind maps, but that they were still outstanding, and that even the mapping of public funding streams that are available to support waste management has not yet happened?
Liam McArthur: ...say they do—no further retreat can occur. It beggars belief that, 18 months since the Government came into office, ministers still have not published their action plan on energy efficiency. The Government was bequeathed a draft by the previous Executive, which was drawn up thanks to input from a wide range of independent experts, so it is hard to find any justification for the...
Sadiq Khan: Communities and Local Government was formed on 5 May 2006. The information as follows goes back to May 2002, and includes data for CLG's predecessor Department, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (which was formed on 29 May 2002) and its agencies. The data requested prior to this date are not held centrally and therefore cannot be provided. Status Memory stick Laptop computer...
David Drew: ...to see that others have gone before me. I refer to Andrew North, the chief executive of Cheltenham borough council, who had the guts to say at the end of August that he believed that unitary local government was the way forward in Gloucestershire, even though it was not his authority's view. I read with some sadness that he feels abused by others who do not think that the time is right for...
Michael Russell: ...and we are certainly not using the situation as a heaven-sent opportunity to talk down Scotland's abilities and attack our neighbours. Jeremy Purvis seemed to think that attacking the Icelandic Government was a great advantage of the economic crisis.
Simon Hughes: ...reports; I have one here, written by Patrick Wintour in The Guardian of Tuesday this week. The headline is, "Chief whip plans to punish rebellious Labour backbenchers", and the report states: "The government was under fire last night after it emerged that the new chief whip, Nick Brown, is proposing that any Labour MP voting against the government in the past year will not be recommended...
Kerry McCarthy: .... Schools have an important role to play, but there is a question about how much a child's situation should be flagged up. When my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government was at the Home Office, she wanted to work with offenders' children to address the likelihood that they might become offenders, but we do not want to give them the impression that...
David Miliband: ...East Asian Nations (ASEAN) conference in Rangoon on 25 May. The rate of delivery of aid has now been good for several months. A Tripartite Core Group (TCG) made up of the UN, ASEAN and the Burmese Government was set up after the Conference. It has played a significant role in ensuring that aid gets through and that international experts have access to the affected areas. In late July, UN...
Bill Rammell: ...raised the subject of the persecution of Christians and other minorities in Mosul in a meeting with the Iraqi Minister for Human Rights in Geneva on 15 October 2008. The Minister confirmed that her government was taking this issue very seriously and providing necessary assistance.