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The minister will be aware that Dumfries and Galloway is one of the few areas in which most of the agencies—the national health service, the police, the fire service, the local council and the enterprise company—have coterminous boundaries.
Water and Sewerage Services (Rural Scotland) To ask the Scottish Executive whether lack of water and sewerage services in rural Scotland is impeding economic growth and, if so, what action it is taking to address any such provision of these services.
That is important for securing not only prosperity for the citizens of Scotland but adequate funding for our public services. The top priority for the people of Scotland is the state of our national health service, which they remain concerned about.
NHS Argyll and Clyde (Clinical Services Review) To ask the Scottish Executive how much money NHS Argyll and Clyde has allocated for the current consultation on its clinical services review.
Why has he not given our doctors and nurses far more say in the running of the national health service in Scotland? I am thinking of foundation hospitals and general practitioner fundholding.
Is the minister aware of the partnership approach that is being adopted by the Ayrshire economic forum in its bid for Common Services Agency jobs? When will a decision be made on the CSA relocation?