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To ask the Scottish Executive what plans it has for the Minister or Deputy Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning to visit Moray and, if a visit is planned, whom the Minister or Deputy Minister will meet.
It has been improved vastly from the first time that I saw it. The visit to Cornton Vale was my first visit to a prison and I was not sure what to expect.
I want to pick up on one or two of these points.On the question of people not being taken and the length of speeches, there should be a solid allocation of time for back-bench speakers if front benchers stick to the time that they are given. The latest changes we made to speaking times in the hour-long debates were made deliberately to allow extra time for ...
The first of them concerns community health partnerships. A new regulation-making power has been added at new section 4B(5)(da) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, as inserted by section 2 of the bill as amended.
Bringing together these services is an important element of the broader strategy to promote more joined up working at local level.During my summer visits programme I visited a number of Primary Care Trusts and met with, among others, a number of LHCC Chairs.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2004
To ask the Scottish Executive how many new sheltered housing complexes were built by (a) social landlords other than local authorities and (b) private developers, broken down by local authority area, in each year since 1999.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 August 2002
One group of young people about whom we are particularly concerned is care leavers. The latest statistics show that around 60 per cent of young people leaving care are not in education, employment or training, compared with a figure of 14 per cent for all 16 to 19-year-olds.