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Ms Elder's argument was that she had put in a great deal of work in visiting the villagers and organising questionnaires, with Mary Spowart carrying out the statistical assessment and so on.
In future discussions with the Scottish Executive, we might wish to check how the training is progressing on the use of the two different numbering systems. We have been told that the new "Scottish Statutory Instrument Practice"—known as the Scottish SIP—is now in draft form, but will be coming on stream.
The question is, that the Audit Committee agrees to defer a decision on whether to seek a debate in the Parliament on its report on the new Scottish Parliament building until it has received the response from the Scottish Executive.
In the next session, it will be for the new Executive, the new Parliamentary Bureau, the new Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body and the new Conveners Group to consider how to space legislation through the four years so that we do not...
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
6 October 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive how many official visits to NHS hospitals were made by the First Minister in each year since 2001, broken down by hospital.
We have undertaken what we call a demand modelling exercise, which takes into account a phenomenon known as trip induction—in other words, some trips will be generated if capacity is released. However, those trips are not new ones. After all, no one buys a new car to take adva...