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On rates of MRSA bacteraemia in the Western Isles, the indication is that there have been six cases between 2003 and 2006. The latest report—which has not been validated or published—gives no indication of a rise in the rates in the Western Isles.
Smoking (Pregnancy) To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in reducing the number of women who smoke while pregnant. (S2O-7828) The latest figures suggest that good progress is being made.
No—Elaine Thomson does not normally take interventions.A huge exercise is going on—new technologies are being developed to get to the peripheral fields, the products of which will be transported abroad.
We also think that the phrase "minimal effect" is attached to a process that is essentially pointless. You could get rid of both a definitional problem and a pointless administrative exercise by getting rid of pre-screening.
It may well be that some of those issues will be addressed at the meeting; we might not be able to get all the answers before then, although I am sure that the clerks will do their level best to get the information.
Investment is being made in community dental facilities, but it has proved impossible in my constituency to get dentists to work in them. We have had the bounty to bring in new staff after they graduate.
If we are going to have severe weather in Scotland more often, we have to get geared up to tackling such problems and to responding with good-quality information to passengers.
We will do that by being positive in the chamber, getting away from the personality politics of the past and concentrating on the policies for the future.