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We have been praying for almost 2,000 years and I think that it is more than time to take a stand. I strongly believe that with the new Parliament we have a new beginning.
That will mark the widest-ever expansion of the European Union. The new member states will bring with them new ideas, energy and—yes—they will bring new challenges.
It was drawn up primarily with the quality of outcomes framework and the new GP contracts in mind. An annual visit to the practice would assess the robustness of disease registers to ensure that the treatments that GPs claimed to deliver were actually being delivered and to ensure that targets were being reached.
I am delighted that Lewis Shand Smith is with me today, as he takes the lead responsibility in the local government field. He visited all 32 local authorities—I visited almost all of them.
The Scottish Prison Service's response was that one new prison has no completion date until the contract is awarded "in due course", and that one new prison is now under the planning appeal process, which could take some considerable time.
That is why the work of the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency will be put on a statutory footing and will have a new structure and new powers to recruit police officers and support staff directly.