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We have a whole project called modernising medical careers, which is addressing the issue of doctors' training in the new age and in the new circumstances.
First, it replaced poindings with the new diligence of attachment. Secondly, it set up the framework for the debt arrangement scheme, which is a new mechanism to help people to repay multiple debts while they are protected from enforcement.
We have to go back to the Executive about that, because it is fundamental to the power that the minister would have.The power in sections 69(1) and 69(2) appears to be restricted to dissolving the board and transferring its functions to a new board on which new functions can be conferred.There is doubt about the vire...
Given the minister's announcement this week that he intends to double the number of new community schools, working in partnership with local authorities, it might be useful to include a paragraph to the effect that there should be an expectation that children with special educational needs should be catered for in any new initiatives by the setting of standards and targets.
We are also working with the private sector to launch a major enterprise initiative in primary schools for the new academic year. New general and credit courses for standard grade technological studies have been developed and will be implemented from the session that starts after the summer.
(S1O-1559) Our top priority is attracting new investment into rented homes. That is why our new housing partnership programme is expected to leverage over £2,000 million into homes for rent.
However, the job creation targets for the project have been revised downwards from the original target of more than 3,500 new jobs by 2006 to a revised target of fewer than 2,000 new jobs by that year.