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He transfers persistent 16 and 17-year-old offenders from the adult courts to his new youth courts and, instead of sending persistent offenders of 13, 14 and 15 to the new youth courts, he keeps them in the children's hearing system.
Community care is going to be delivered by areas where the remits on audit are different. Are we now going to consider new areas and possibly propose a remit to those who design our fate?
More work still has to be done, but we are embarking on the biggest hospital programme that Scotland has ever seen. There will be eight new hospitals and significant investment.
(S1O-1894) As the member will be aware, local health care co-operatives have recently completed their first year of operation as part of the new partnership-based structure of the national health service in Scotland.
I do not know the secrets of the budget, but I think that we will hear some reasonably good but responsible news that will allow us to continue with that steady and sensible growth in local public services.
That will examine the options for bringing an independent element into the police complaints procedure. That is a new development since the previous occasion on which I appeared before the committee.
I am rather concerned that health boards have not implemented the new pay scales. Can we write to health boards and ask why there is a delay, given that the pay scales were to be implemented by March 2007?
In consultation with local authority and national health service partnerships, we have set challenging new delayed discharge targets to free up valuable hospital beds and I expect all partnerships to work together to achieve them.