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(S1F-440) I have had two meetings with the Prime Minister this month, the latest being in Glasgow last Friday at the joint ministerial committee on health.
However, there must be organisations who find giving evidence even more of a burden than the STUC does, given that the STUC's membership is fairly skilled and professionally long in the tooth. I also noticed that the state of New York has produced a citizens guide to lobbying, to help members of the public to get the...
Without question, under Labour, people pay more and get less.Labour politicians have thrown cash at the new deal, but most of the people whom they claim to have helped would have been helped anyway.
Although we have not obtained everything that we wanted, we are prepared to accept the package, subject to reservations. In politics, when one cannot get exactly what one wants, one must fight to obtain as much as one can get.
That is a matter of some concern in relation to the continued development of policy and the good use of money. I would like to get a bit more of a handle on that. I am not sure whether we should hear evidence from the Abbeyfield Society as well as from the minister, but we need to get more background to what the orde...
We could ask the question, but we might not gain much from doing so. We would probably get the answer that we usually get. What do other members think?