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As stated in the revised ‘COVID-19: visiting guidance for hospitals in Scotland’ a birth partner supporting a woman during hospital visits is ‘essential’.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2020
We in Scotland have made it our prerogative to welcome refugees. We have offered them a new place in which to start over and invited them to make beautiful Scotland their new home.
Here endeth the history lesson. 15:26 I am delighted that I do not have to tear up my speech and that this is the consensual debate that I thought that it was going to be.
If you had asked me this question before 26 July, I would have said that, without the protections in the directives, the Government would have the power to make access to justice difficult.
The next general election will not be a de facto referendum; it will be a general election. The latest poll suggests that Labour is gaining more and more support in Scotland.
Officials are currently working with custody visiting scheme administrators to consider options and recommendations for a new statutory scheme under the reform agenda.
I will leave it to the panel to decide who should answer my questions, which are about the case backlog. It would be helpful to know the latest figures on the backlog of criminal cases, both summary and solemn.