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Best value is not about getting services on the cheap; it is about ensuring that the money that has been spent on services has the desired effect, so that improving the quality of life is delivered in imaginative ways, and it is about considering equality opportunities, inclusion and engagement.
Section 97—Imposition of conditions on provision of information Amendment 26 not moved. Section 98—Other duties of person acting as agent for seller Amendment 27 not moved.
Just now, prisoners stroll out of jail either half way or two thirds of the way through their total sentences. Under the First Minister's new legislation, all prisoners could stroll out of jail half way through their total sentences.
Obviously, however, the provision will have no effect until the bill is brought into force and the new body comes into being. Therefore, as things stand, the commissioner could not take part in the process of appointing the SPSA's first convener and board members.
It shows that in the last quarter of last year, of the 7,000 new addicts referred for treatment, nearly 1,000 waited more than six months just to be assessed for treatment, and 400 waited longer than a year.
He said:"The picture that is presented is a lot of new money going in, some targets being hit, quite a few targets being missed, and quite a few targets which we do not know if they have been hit or not because nobody bothered to check."