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To ask the Scottish Executive whether any new monies allocated for debt advice services will be used to expand the breadth and quality of existing free advice services rather than establishing new organisations.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
17 December 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Lothian NHS Board has advised it of any delay in transferring the sterilising centre from the City Hospital to the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. The sterilising centre is on target to transfer to the new Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh on 28 January 2002.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2001
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to review the codes of practice in place under the New Roads and Streetworks Act 1991. As with other areas of roads legislation, the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 and associated Codes of Practice are kept under regular review.
It is simply not true that the hands of judges are being tied. In fact, the new system not only improves the authority of the judge in the court, but ensures that the judge's sentence is properly carried out.
She could also have referred to the rising trend in teacher numbers—additional teachers can help in this issue—the rising trend in attainment or new figures that show that crime levels are dropping.
That is pretty strong stuff.The other issue relates to the previous article 7, which is the new article 6. Paragraph 45 of the legal brief analyses the matter, and paragraph 46 states:"the policy purpose of article 6 at least"—that is, the new article—"could be achieved by an order under section 104 of the Scotland A...
In the letter, he made it clear that new powers were needed to take account of any future development in, and regulation of, elective general surgery, piercing or tattooing and the future revision of the WHO's definition of FGM.
I think that, as has been suggested, we should reply to Patricia Ferguson, welcoming the fact that an apology has been made and that new procedures are to be put in place.