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Johann Lamont is attending another committee meeting.I suggest that we consider items 5, 6 and 7—further action on petitions, the drugs inquiry report and the work programme—in private.
Section 4—The Public Guardian and his functions We now come to amendment 2, which is grouped with amendments 4, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15, 16, 18, 35 to 38, 40 to 42 and 72.
Scottish ParliamentHealth and Community Care CommitteeTuesday 7 December 1999(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 10:03 Good morning and welcome to this meeting of the Health and Community Care Committee.Before we begin our first item of business, I want to put something on record.
Our next meeting is on 27 April and so our deadline for consideration is 26 April. There is nothing to prevent members from getting more information for their own benefit, but the order will be reported to Parliament on 3 May.
I am aware of the concerns that Iain Smith has expressed that the bill as introduced would not allow the university to grant postgraduate medical research degrees to doctors who had gained their primary qualification overseas.We would not want to deny overseas doctors who are eligible for registration under section 19 of the Medical Act 1983 access to the new medical research degrees. We would also not wish to deny access to doctors who are eligible for limited registration.
I have received the general impression that there can be changes in attitudes when immigrants are faced with a new set of cultural pressures. If you want to gather evidence from elsewhere, you might want to consider places with large immigrant populations that have faced the problems for longer than Scotland has, such as London or some of the Scandinavian c...