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I understand that we must refer petitions back to the Public Petitions Committee, which will decide how to deal with them in the new session. We have a legacy paper, which we will discuss later.
Those in the rural areas in Scotland who ran the campaign on the issue must be pleased with that piece of news. The Government's announcement goes practically all the way to satisfying the petitioners.
He transfers persistent 16 and 17-year-old offenders from the adult courts to his new youth courts and, instead of sending persistent offenders of 13, 14 and 15 to the new youth courts, he keeps them in the children's hearing system.
Community care is going to be delivered by areas where the remits on audit are different. Are we now going to consider new areas and possibly propose a remit to those who design our fate?
More work still has to be done, but we are embarking on the biggest hospital programme that Scotland has ever seen. There will be eight new hospitals and significant investment.
(S1O-1894) As the member will be aware, local health care co-operatives have recently completed their first year of operation as part of the new partnership-based structure of the national health service in Scotland.
I do not know the secrets of the budget, but I think that we will hear some reasonably good but responsible news that will allow us to continue with that steady and sensible growth in local public services.
Only this week, orders were laid for the new eastern bypass around Kincardine village and a commitment was made to provide a new crossing on the upper Forth.