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As I mentioned, we have significant renewable energy potential, particularly around the former Cockenzie power station site, and there are offshore opportunities, as well as strategic development sites at Blindwells.
I do not have any particular problem with the expression “acquired gender”. As Sharon Cowan suggests, you could spend a very long time trying to find a better expression that was more acceptable to all parties without getting any further forward.
We need to be alive to the need to site the data centres in the right place and with the explicit consent of nearby communities.As I have said, there are a lot of opportunities for data centres to be sited in places where other developments can make use of the excess heat.
Extra work will also be involved in going out to look for more sites. That is correct. Environmental crime is a priority for SEPA at the moment, and we put a lot of time and effort into identifying sites.
To remind people, our capital budget is being reduced by 26 per cent; granted, that is less than the 33 per cent that Alistair Darling was planning to cut it by, but it is still a 26 per cent reduction.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
20 November 2020
Every care home should develop its own risk assessment and visiting protocol which should be agreed in liaison with the local Health Protection Team and/or Care Home Clinical and Care Professional Oversight Team.
In relation to all FAIs, nearest relatives are kept advised of significant developments in accordance with the Family Liaison Charter which I laid before the Scottish Parliament last year.
They have worked with family nursing partnerships and health visitors to see whether there are ways that they can identify families through them and have taken part in community engagement exercises as well.
In May, five online focus groups were held with a total of 26 staff. Sessions lasted 50 minutes and were led by a researcher with support from a notetaker.
We are taking a slightly different interpretation of six months from that taken by the health service in England; we are defining six months as 24 weeks rather than 26 weeks, to allow us to vaccinate that bit quicker.