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In education, it has been argued that that management is best delivered through local authorities; there are also arguments in favour of Stewart Sutherland's recommendation.
(S1O-516) The New Opportunities Fund Board, which is responsible for that new initiative, has set up a robust bidding and assessment process, which is expected to be completed by summer 2001.
I am not sure that declaring future interests is the best way to do it, but if the House of Commons, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the National Assembly for Wales have such a rule, so should we, despite our misgivings.
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.
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.
That investment will support the provision of nearly 5,000 new homes for low-cost home ownership throughout Scotland by 2008.We have discussed with stakeholders new proposals for supporting low-cost home ownership based on shared equity and we will announce shortly the new mea...
Time for Reflection Welcome to Holyrood. Welcome to the new Scots Parliament. Our first item of business this morning is time for reflection, which is led by one of our new neighbours—the Rev Charles Robertson, minister of the Canongate kirk.
They must be fully involved in designing the working practices to support the new forms of service delivery. I am pleased that staff are increasingly involved in the consultation processes that are taking place in many parts of the country on developing those new services.