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Most services are delivered through the voluntary sector and they often use volunteers. When we visited the Hamilton contact centre, the two women on the door were volunteers.
The deaf are just as interested in politics, current affairs and literature as any hearing people. When I was MP for Hamilton, I visited the deaf school, and the children then paid a visit to the House of Commons.
I agree that there is great potential for any area that is designated as a national park. Last month, we launched our new strategy for Scottish tourism, to lead our tourism industry into a new phase of modernisation and expansion.
We would like those initiatives to develop and bear fruit before we consider introducing a new procedure. However, we should keep an eye on that and ensure that the long-standing unanswered questions with which we are so familiar are eliminated by the new procedures.Limiting the number of parliamentary questions, whi...
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the reported comments on hospital car parking charges by the First Minister at the latest “Ask Jack” event that “At the moment we don’t get involved in those decisions by the health boards.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 February 2007
His response is as follows:On the 31 March 2006 therewere 116 prisoners sentenced to less than three months and 507 sentenced to betweenthree and less than six months. The informationprovided is the latest data which has been subject to audit review processes.