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To ask the Scottish Executive how it is proposing to more effectively screen older people's health needs, as referred to in section 6 of Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change.
The suggestion is that the clerks will use the forthcoming timetable of meetings to identify the sites on the route that we want to visit. The proposal is for an all-day site visit on Tuesday 7 June.
If the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, as amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, refers to a "tenant", the subordinate legislation should do so as well.
From a public sector point of view, joint ventures will also provide more flexibility in the way we manage our estate, because tenants or shareholders can disinvest from the premises.
However, tenants should be in no doubt that only the transfer option can provide debt write-off, which is necessary to boost investment and stabilise rents.
Against the QIS standards, not all patients are, on admission to hospital, screened for risk of undernutrition, although such screening is clearly important.
We simply set up the first four visits to get going. The committee has Conveners Group funding for further visits, so if members want to undertake one or two of the visits that have been identified, we can arrange it.