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The Committee will know that the bus market in England operates differently to that in Scotland. In England, mayors are buying buses for specific operators in their areas operating through franchise.
There was an initial attempt at a form of ‘buy out’ around October 2023, however, for UNISON Scotland it was never likely that this was going to be a solution which would satisfy equality issues.
How can they state that when mesh manufacturers are being sued worldwide and admitting failings with mesh devices that the Scottish NHS still buy and use? We asked the Committee to take expert advice from The Shouldice Hospital.
That is a really good question and one that occupies my board, as you would imagine. This is new to all of us. It is new to the Scottish Government, it is new to us and it is new to the Parliament, and we all have to build capacity and ...
We are in need of more foster carers. The latest Care Inspectorate report says: “There were fewer new households approved ... than in any of the four preceding years”, and that “402 foster care households ... deregistered.”
Day 1 of those proceedings is scheduled to take place at the committee’s meeting on Tuesday 26 November. The deadline for lodging stage 2 amendments to the bill will be 12 noon on Wednesday 20 November.
Supply chains and consumers may simply shift in behaviours and buying patterns to satisfy demand. In short, the demand for single- use vapes is very high and making them illegal can only increase illegal sales.
The industry could well challenge the Government on uprating under the new internal market act, which is a new test in comparison to the European context in which the original case took place.