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The condition represents a huge burden on the Scottish health service: an estimated 30,000 patients undergo skin biopsies every year and many more require out-patient diagnostic assessment, which costs the national health service approximately £30 million a year.
I would see it as a threat when the initiative requires staff who currently deliver core services to do something special. Although that something special might be good, the impact that it has elsewhere might not be.
That being the case, it is necessary to make a consequential amendment to the Police (Scotland) Act 1967 to ensure that Scottish officers' terms and conditions of service are preserved while they are on secondment to the new commission.
I know that the procurator fiscal service deals with racial complaints of a criminal nature, but what happens if a racial complaint is made against the police, yet is not deemed to be of a criminal nature?
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is aware of, or has been involved in, the carrying out of abductions in Scotland by foreign secret services. No. S2W-22749
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Date answered:
22 September 2004