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One of the pieces of work that I found ahead of this debate was an evaluation of the Marie Curie nursing service in England, which found “evidence of lower total care costs for someone receiving the service compared to a similar individual in receipt of usual end-of-life care”.
Although the numbers show a significant improvement when compared to studies conducted in 2014, they continue to highlight the gap between veterans and non-veterans.
That is how it is set up. How do the passenger numbers compare at the moment? I do not know about the figures for Western Ferries, because it carries predominantly vehicle traffic.
Over the past generation, Scotland's average annual growth rate was 1.8 per cent per year, compared with 2.3 per cent for the United Kingdom and more than 3 per cent for small European countries.
No comparators are published, as far as I know—although there are comparators for the amount of compensation that is paid out under the various schemes.Scottish Water employs a lot of people in customer contact.
I was also asked by ministers, as the portfolio accountable officer, to visit Bòrd na Gàidhlig and ensure that I was satisfied that that plan of improvement was being pursued.
As the minister knows from our recent joint visit to New Craigs psychiatric hospital in Inverness, staff on the front line can experience trauma and emotional difficulty.
Your mention of the Law Commission is handy, as our next line of questioning is about it, following a visit by committee members. Tom Arthur has a few questions.
There were about 200 private sector tenants and we decided to write to them to advise that we would be coming to visit on a particular date and that they could cancel or rearrange that if they wanted to.