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This week we have put an additional £14 million of new money into the national health service in Scotland, half of which is specifically directed to intensive care and high-dependency beds and to medical equipment.
There has been a significant increase in the targeting of the prawn fishery, not only by former whitefish boats, as Mr McGrigor described, but by new, efficient, under10m boats. There is now an opportunity to develop both the fishery and the market.
Is the minister aware that in the East Lothian News and in the East Lothian Courier on 25 June 1999, reference was made to savings—a nice way of putting it—of £920,000 in the social work budget?
The plan is that the draft will be published within the next few weeks and that the bill will be formally introduced in the chamber early in the new year. I confess total ignorance about how those matters work.
Since making that request, I have contacted David Watt, the Scottish partnership manager of the New Millennium Experience Company—he will be attending the meeting at 3 pm.
Children and Young People To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it proposes to ensure that the interests and views of children and young people are taken into account in future legislation. (S1O-17) The new legislative process will reflect the arrangements that were proposed in the consultative steering group report.