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Does he therefore accept that, should the new waiting times figures be worse than or the same as those he inherited in 1997, his policy on health will have failed in respect of waiting times?
The settlement means more freedom, opportunity and good news for local authorities and it is appropriate that, at this time of year, a minister with a white beard is issuing this good news.
Together, the two figures ensure that there is provision in the budget to make police numbers higher than they were when the Conservatives left office in May 1997 and higher than they were when they last peaked in December 1997.There will be new police officers. The chief police officer in Strathclyde was very welcoming about my announcement and indicated that he will be recruiting new officers as a result of the money.
If so, will there be enough prison places for them, given the £13 million cut in Prison Service funding? The establishment of the new drugs enforcement agency does not mean that there will be more imprisonment.
It is imperative that most of the measures that are before us form part of the new structural assistance. I know that the industry will support the continuance of those measures in the new programme, especially measures such as fleet renewal and modernisation, from which—unfortunately—our industry has not been able t...
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Date answered:
18 April 2006
This is in addition to SW’s current assessment of strategic capacity, containedin the above plan, which it believes is sufficient to allow nearly 73,000 new housingunits and 2,500 hectares of new commercial land to be connected.
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Date answered:
9 November 2005
The average net income for 2004-05, the first year following theintroduction of the new GMS contract will not be available until all superannuationreturns from GPs have been assessed in the first half of next year.