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Information on the amount of expenditure specifically on smoking-related programmes by local Health Board health promotion departments is not held centrally.
If we can get food of high nutritional quality, we will, of course, be promoting health. We have an opportunity to introduce patients—who are also consumers—to new patterns of consumption.
As Liam McArthur said, there were issues 20 years ago in Oregon, when assisted dying was new or emerging, but there is now a very refined protocol that we know works at 100 per cent effectiveness.12Scottish Parliament. (2025, February 4).
In short, the Scottish Government could have added within legislative competence the protected characteristic of gender reassignment, which would have included trans men and trans women. But it created a new protected characteristic of trans women, which it did not have the power to do.
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21 September 2023
We agree that additional clarity would be beneficial. We propose the insertion of a new definition “surviving partner” at para 1(1) of the Schedule as follows: ““surviving partner” has the meaning given in regulation 76 of the 2015 Regulations.”
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That said the DFM acknowledged the wider concerns about decluttering the public sector landscape—
As time goes on, new policy initiatives are introduced and there are moments when we have to take stock and simplify some of those exercises.
The committee's draft report states that one of the priorities of the programme is"promoting entrepreneurship and supporting individuals engaged in new business formation".Briefly, are there some examples of that?