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01 SEP 2010
SFT announce benefits for 2009/10: Challenge is for us to all save more
The Scottish Futures Trust has announced £111m of net benefits and savings to infrastructure investment in Scotland. The total benefit to infrastructure investment in Scotland achieved from the SFT's work with partner organisations during 2009-2010 amounts to £218m. Derek Brownlee MSP,...
01 SEP 2010
Standard Life job losses: We must continue to support Scotland’s vital financial services sector
Standard Life is to cut up to 500 jobs in Edinburgh over the next 18 months. Derek Brownlee MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth, said: "This news will come as a blow to the staff at Standard Life and their families, although we must continue to support the vital fina...
01 SEP 2010
80% of prisoners on methadone are being parked and forgotten about
Just 20% of prisoners who are being prescribed methadone are on a reducing dose. This means that 80% of prisoners are being parked on methadone. Figures revealed by the Scottish Conservatives from Prisoner Survey data show that just 157 of the 777 participating prisoners who were being prescribed m...
31 AUG 2010
Fraser: “Mixed bag” Alcohol Commission doesn’t strike the right balance
Scottish Labour's Alcohol Commission has reported back today. Murdo Fraser MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing, says: "This report is a mixed bag. The Commission is right to identify that there is no 'silver bullet' to cure Scotland's problem of alcohol over-consumption, and t...
31 AUG 2010
Re-offending stats will only get worse thanks to SNP’s determination to empty our jails
The latest re-offending statistics have been released, showing that the number of criminals who go on to reoffend within two years has reached its highest level in a decade. Given that these figures relate to a period before the SNP extended Home Detention Curfews and scrapped short sentences, they...
30 AUG 2010
Clear choice for Councils: Pay restraint or thousands more job losses
A poll conducted by Grant Thornton, which surveyed 39 chief executives and finance directors across Scotland's 32 local authorities, has revealed the projected job losses across the Councils over the next two years Derek Brownlee MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth, s...
30 AUG 2010
Fraser: Targeted duty increases the best way forward for tackling Scotland’s drink problem
Diageo have submitted a response to the Treasury's consultation on alcohol taxation, calling for a staged reform of excise duty. Murdo Fraser MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Health & Wellbeing, says: "This is a welcome contribution to the debate from Diageo. It is right that all we get as br...
30 AUG 2010
Smith: Teaching time debate shows there are tough choices ahead thanks to Labour’s debt legacy
Reports today state that the leader of Glasgow City Council is writing to the Education Secretary, asking him to reopen the 2001 McCrone deal that guaranteed teachers more than 12 hours a week to spend marking and preparing lessons in school, rather than teaching. He argues that increasing teaching...
30 AUG 2010
Teachers and trade union cover –nearly £1m of taxpayers’ cash spent by half of Scotland’s councils
Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives under Freedom of Information show that, in just 18 Councils areas, teacher time off for trade union duties cost nearly £1m of taxpayers' money providing teacher cover over the last 5 years. Furthermore, in the last year alone, the bill for the 13 ...
27 AUG 2010
CoSLA impose three year pay deal – Time the unions saw sense
CoSLA have withdrawn their original pay offer to Council employees after unions claimed the offer was rejected and will now impose a three year deal in its place. Derek Brownlee MSP, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Finance & Sustainable Growth, says: "The unions only have themselves to blame as t...
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