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Nothing that I have said will in any way delay the important decisions that have been made, whether those concern a new hospital in Forth valley or the Stobhill and Victoria hospitals in Glasgow.
I was also interested in the power of the New Zealand committee to annul instruments many years afterwards on a petition from an affected member of the public.
Therefore I will invite Jackie Baillie and whoever the equality unit deems the appropriate person to explore these issues initially.The last point that we raised—we were not trying to be topical—concerned the new Parliament building. It has been suggested that there will not be a crèche in the new Parliament.
The massive increase in the number of ministerial positions and the escalating costs for the new Parliament building will put an added drain on the funds available.
I turn to the question of how many judges should sit as supreme court judges and how many of them should be Scottish judges, which is covered in paragraphs 18 to 26 of the Executive's submission to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitutional Reform Bill.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 March 2004
They will act as something of a steppingstone to enable the new Scotland-wide network to be established and, as far asusers of the network are concerned, we do not envisage that two new ATBs willbe prominent.