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(S1F-440) I have had two meetings with the Prime Minister this month, the latest being in Glasgow last Friday at the joint ministerial committee on health.
In future, in its questions on the health service, the SNP would do well to have more respect for the Parliament, for the Scottish people and for the facts. Is the minister aware of the latest major cuts in services proposed at Stracathro hospital?
His answer is similar to that which is set out in the Executive response to the petition, which is that a debate is on-going.Nobody will say how much it will cost to buy out the toll regime. Indeed, it would be remiss of the Scottish Executive or the Scottish Parliament to put a definitive figure on it at this stage while negotiations continue to be held.
When matters relating to the powers of that proposed authority were canvassed by me in open question time during one of the meetings of the Parliament in Glasgow, the Minister for Transport and the Environment indicated that consultants are considering whether such an authority could have powers to buy and sell petrol, to try to deal with the problem of hig...
I am not sure whether that role would necessarily be for us; it might be more for a group that the Executive would develop. Do you mean a new body? The role might be given to an existing disability body; the body need not be brand new.
Secondly, the process of inspection will not change as a result of the powers of intervention. The bill introduces a possible new end to a process that is already in being.