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I invite the committee to express its support for that visit. I am totally in favour of the visit—I was in Czechoslovakia during the velvet revolution.
There are 1,000 fewer nurses and midwives. On waiting lists—new Labour's obsession—its own latest figures show a rise of 15 per cent during the past year.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs have been created by community buy-outs since 1994. Details of jobs created by community buy-outs since 1994 are not available.
I met the Chairman and the Secretary of the Royal Commission during a visit I made to the Commission's offices in Edinburgh on 26 June 2000 to view the wide range of work which the Commission undertakes.
I cannot remember the number of stereos and compact disc players that I have owned. It is cheaper to buy a new one than to take the old one to be repaired.
However, I assure the chamber that those members who visited schools during and outwith the election period and spoke to pupils and teachers can verify that the pupils said—they certainly said it to me at the schools that I visited—that they had lost facilities because of the new PFI or PPP schools.
To ask the Scottish Executive the number of people from each EU state, excluding the UK, who are resident in (a) Edinburgh and (b) Scotland. The latest availableinformation is from the 2001 Census.