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Before the election, in the previous session of Parliament, the committee undertook a site visit to the Rest and Be Thankful. Unfortunately, I could not make it, as I was taking evidence in Skye on land reform on the same day.
It also employs a part-time social worker who visits those who receive such grants. David Dobson, who is on the charity’s executive committee, described that work as “one main thrust of the purposes of the trust, and it will be maintained absolutely”.
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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 February 2008
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will make either the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine or cervical screening available to all women aged between 18 and 26 who request them.
That is supported by a budget of £60 million in 2009-10, and it is helping social sector tenants and tackling poverty by offering, for the first time, innovative technologies such as air-source heat pumps in a rural setting.
If we just keep going back to the same services that we thought were not very good the last time that we visited them and do not visit somewhere else, the danger is that we might miss care standards slipping and care becoming poor.