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As I said, we are determined to build capacity in the NHS across all groups, and that includes mental health services for young people. I have mentioned the reports that we are awaiting.
Does the minister agree that it is completely unacceptable for the national health service to use recruitment agencies such as Bankvale, which exploit overseas workers by charging them £400 for a job interview and pocketing £800 from the NHS for every nurse recruited?
The Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Services, Tavish Scott, and I hope that we will be able to announce a decision to the Parliament as soon as possible.
The track already exists and freight services run on the line, but there are track and signalling problems, although they are felt not to be insurmountable.
Going to the local government ombudsman would be like falling down a rabbit hole, never to be seen again. There is a new public services ombudsman, Dorothy. I agree that it is always difficult for us to rule petitions on such issues inadmissible, but we can consider only more general issues.
Those people are ill, because they were contaminated in the past as a result of the bad-blood scandal in the national health service, whereby skid-row blood was bought in from America, which infected babies.
They are about a school's ethos and spirit and its links with the community and they are about focusing on the needs of individual children and bringing services to a school. Before community schools, children and parents had to track round parts of the community to access those services.