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We have a whole project called modernising medical careers, which is addressing the issue of doctors' training in the new age and in the new circumstances.
First, it replaced poindings with the new diligence of attachment. Secondly, it set up the framework for the debt arrangement scheme, which is a new mechanism to help people to repay multiple debts while they are protected from enforcement.
We have to go back to the Executive about that, because it is fundamental to the power that the minister would have.The power in sections 69(1) and 69(2) appears to be restricted to dissolving the board and transferring its functions to a new board on which new functions can be conferred.There is doubt about the vire...
Given the minister's announcement this week that he intends to double the number of new community schools, working in partnership with local authorities, it might be useful to include a paragraph to the effect that there should be an expectation that children with special educational needs should be catered for in any new initiatives by the setting of standards and targets.
We are also working with the private sector to launch a major enterprise initiative in primary schools for the new academic year. New general and credit courses for standard grade technological studies have been developed and will be implemented from the session that starts after the summer.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
1 November 1999
This will give information on individual characteristics, previous work history and New Deal experience: what clients have done in New Deal, their feelings about New Deal and their destinations after New Deal.The GB survey is now procee...
The Executive is committed to turning the potential benefits that are associated with the new contract into actual benefits for patients, staff and the NHS.
It is true that the lead time for a new prison is normally four to six years and that there have been planning permission problems for the potential new site at Low Moss.
New Businesses (Support) To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will give assistance to new businesses established through the Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise networks, for example by abolishing business rates for the first 12 months of their existence.