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We undertook a detailed review of quality, patient satisfaction and cost and management of the catering service at 41 hospitals in 26 national health service bodies. The review covered about 50 per cent of staffed beds.
Part 2 does not extend our powers: it underpins our current activity. The new programme of performance inspection that ministers have tasked the new agency with undertaking replicates the powers in the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968 to ensure that our current activity is adequately underpinned.
The house has to be thoroughly cleaned; people get haircuts and, if they can afford it, new clothes are bought. Ideally, debts are repaid so that the new year is started with a clean slate.
I have committed myself to getting the report to the Justice and Home Affairs Committee and I will make sure that it is done by 26 January, come hell or high water.
The information is available for each local authority area.Information is currently available up to the end of September 2001. Figures for the latest quarter July-September 2001 were published in Table 8 of the Scottish Executive Quarterly Housing Trends Bulletin HSG/2002/1.
To ask the Scottish Executive why Scottish economic growth rates have failed to match UK growth rates in recent years. Latest data show that quarterly growth in Scotland is broadly in line with the UK, although year on year growth is slower.