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In order to contribute to the reduction of Lyme disease in Scotland, Health Protection Scotland (HPS) recently reviewed the latest trends in respect of confirmed cases.
Introduction
At its meeting on 31 January 2017, the Committee considered the provisions in the Digital Economy Bill (“the Bill”)iThe latest version of the Bill is available at: https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2016-17/digitaleconomy.html that confer powers to make subordinate legislation on the Scottish Ministers.
I do not in any way underestimate the extent of the challenge that faces the service and, by extension, people across Scotland. It is the latest in a number of significant challenges that have been posed for us as a result of the pandemic.
The purposes of the bill include renaming the widows fund as the dependents fund, and providing the society with powers either to close the fund to new members or to close it completely; giving the society powers to wind itself up in the future; creating new types of membership and making new provision to allow members of the society to resign; and abolishing the offices of librarian and fiscal.
Pre-pandemic, in 2019—I know that this was a high-water mark—the figure was about 26 per cent. That is a significant decline in volunteer numbers in organisations.