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I presume that the SPS monitors the quality of service that it gets from the privatised prisons, and that it will in effect be the regulator in this instance.
As you can imagine, one of the very good pieces of news that I have heard in the past few days was about the meeting of the regional cancer networks that was held last Friday to look at the latest audit data, which show that all the key clinical standards are now being met.
At present, the school estate is being upgraded throughout the country. If a school is scheduled for new build in 2010, that is when it will get a better dining hall or cafeteria, not sooner.
In my experience in West Lothian, we received challenge funding for new partnerships, which allowed us to get 300 new homes for rent with a far lower level of Government subsidy than has been possible for many years through Scottish Homes.