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The Chief Medical Officer wrote to all doctors in Scotland on 7 September 1998 to promote greater vigilance amongst health professionals of the signs and symptoms of CO exposure in their patients.
To be perfectly honest, the Competition Commission should butt out.I have two local issues on which I ask the minister to prompt action, both of which involve railway bridges. I thank the minister for visiting Gordon to see the issues for himself.
Will there be a duty on people who rent a horse—either for one event or for a week—to be in possession of its passport if it is taken on to the new keeper's land or on to common land?
Many people fear coming back into education because they are afraid of revealing a lack of such skills to their new employers or colleagues. The training of those learning representatives by the unions is proving to be an invaluable social inclusion measure.
We have a good relationship with independent schools. I appreciate that there are new burdens for the independent sector—for example, the McCrone settlement is an additional burden and the new probationer scheme is a potential additional burden.
Major changes are under way in some of the teacher training institutions. We are funding new posts in the University of Aberdeen, where new professors are developing new ways of training teachers and supporting them in the process of being trained in inclusion and additional s...
We can point to certain indicators, the first of which are the latest census figures. We are starting to see the tail end of a gradual decline moving up.
That has meant that multiple Scottish statutory instruments have previously been required where policies required the use of powers extended by other acts. Clause 26 allows ministers to make orders, schemes or rules under section 2(2) of the 1972 act in addition to orders in council and regulations, so it will be possible to implement an EU obligation by th...