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Would the same apply to other registered social landlords, such as housing associations? Yes. You will have noted that a new phrase—“food poverty”—has gained currency; indeed, you will also have heard that we are now feeding people using the Big Lottery Fund.
First, the EU is an organisation that welcomes new members. It wants others to join—it most certainly would not want to see existing parts of its territory leave.
It highlights some achievements, including the development of an education and performance management framework to ensure that services in remote community hospitals can be delivered, the establishment of the aerial medical emergency retrieval service, and the establishment of new specialist training programmes in remote and rural general surgery, anaesthes...
I agree with you that protecting front-line services should take priority—it is with a heavy heart that I say this—over avoiding increasing the cost burden on NHS staff.I mention the Scottish solution for which Unison is calling because you mentioned that you hope to have had by 2015 negotiations with health sector trade unions on a new Scottish scheme. Is ...
As I explained, with the significant increase in the estimated construction costs, the estimated fees have also increased significantly, the latest figure being £26 million. There is no doubt that consultants have engaged in significant additional work because of the various changes and problems encountered with the ...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 January 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new council houses were (a) built and (b) planned by each local authority in (a) 2003-04, (b) 2004-05, (c) 2005-06, (d) 2006-07, (e) 2007-08, (f) 2008-09 and (g) 2009-10.
Amendment 10 is a minor technical amendment that will ensure that section 66(3) of the 1997 act includes a reference to new sections 41A to 41I of that act, which section 23 of the bill will insert.
Audit concerns and the threat of European Union penalties are real, but that is an argument for setting out clearly what the new approach will be and how it will be enforced.
If the Commission had more flexibility to bring that unused money into play when new challenges arose and new priorities needed to be addressed, that would be a huge improvement.