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The service set out above has, in our view, been systematically downgraded by NHS Highland with ward closures, staff and services transferred to Raigmore in Inverness and the attempted closures of Dunbar Hospital and the Town and County Hopsital.
The intention is that templates for some forms would remain in legislation, such as ballot paper designs and nomination papers, but responsibility for others, such as Certificates of employment and information and guidance notices, would transfer to the Forms Working Group. The Scottish Government’s view is that transferring the responsibility for designing templates for the forms used by Returning Officers to the Electoral Management Board’s Forms Working Group would allow for more agile design and the opportunity for ROs to quickly adapt them to changing circumstances.
If you have a specific question about the 2015 act, I can follow it up, but the operation of the 2015 act and asset transfer is outside the scope of the bill.
These include:
providing better support for those not entitled to SDA at the point of transfer
stopping the scheme entirely
merging SDA with other programmes
leaving SDA as the responsibility of the UK Government.2Scottish Government. (2017).
The bid would have been based on information about what the pay rates of the previous incumbent were when the staff were transferred across under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations.