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To ask the Scottish Executive what support it plans to give to the Scottish Ambulance Service and, in particular, to the ambulance service in Lanarkshire to help them to overcome any problems they currently face.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 January 2001
The Executive is keen to ensure that these new appointments should reflect the diversity of modern Scottish society and that is why I would like to enlist your help in identifying possible candidates to carry out this role during the transition period.
In many ways, the upside of the disadvantage that he mentioned is that everybody, including the prisoner and those who are planning for release, such as the Scottish Prison Service, will know at what point they can start planning and assessing the risk.
—Official Report, Health and Community Care Committee, 26 January 2000; c 540.Alzheimer Scotland made precisely the same point about the side effects of powerful drugs.
I am interested to know more about how the Executive plans to take that forward. I hope that they genuinely are what I would describe as local improvement targets, in the sense of having grown from the bottom up.
There would be merit in our writing to the Post Office to ask about its plans. Whether closures take place in Inverness, Glasgow or wherever, we should be concerned, in particular because the Post Office is encouraging pensioners to access their pensions through banks.