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I support what Bill Butler and Jackie Baillie have said. New year's day's status as a holiday is already being eroded, as was apparent on new year's day this year.
A difficult issue arises, as Andy O'Neill pointed out, when the sanction straddles an electoral period so a councillor may come in with a new mandate. COSLA suggests that the sanction would have to carry over from the old mandate to the new mandate.
The first of them concerns community health partnerships. A new regulation-making power has been added at new section 4B(5)(da) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, as inserted by section 2 of the bill as amended.
New Deal To ask the Scottish Executive why participants in the new deal for young people programme in Scotland are more likely to experience two or three periods of unemployment than their counterparts in England and Wales.
It has also confirmed final grades in all but 85 standard grade cases and has promised to complete the last of those by Friday at the latest. Schools and colleges were asked to submit all urgent appeals by 31 August.
I know that out-of-hours services have been causing concern, but the new options for GPs in the new GMS contract will make general practice more attractive, as will the other positive features of the contract.