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As the cabinet secretary has outlined, local authorities are carrying out inspection visits to all 229 approved meat-processing premises and 29 cold stores in Scotland.
A videoconference would be good, as it would not open us up to accusations that we want to go off on visits and all the rest of it. We want to do a real job of work with these people, and if there is an economic way to do it, that would be an excellent idea.
It is an intensive home-visiting programme that runs for 20 weeks and aims to help parents who are undergoing treatment for severe drug and alcohol problems to bond with their babies and improve their parenting skills.
I make a plea for it to be somewhere central, taking into account travel and the like. Perhaps we can look at visiting different places when we consider our work programme.
Peter Atherton, of Liberum Capital, said that the cost of the nuclear energy that might some day be generated at Hinkley Point—the current estimate for that is the mid-2020s—will be “£5 million per MW of capacity”. He pointed out that the comparable cost per megawatt of combined cycle gas turbine generation is £755,000.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will confirm that, in comparing the draft budget for 2011-12 with that for 2010-11, £95 million less is budgeted for the NHS boards and Special Health Boards.
Of course, that fear pales into insignificance compared with that which families face when their loved ones are lying seriously ill waiting for a blood transfusion.On one occasion when I was giving blood, I was beside somebody who worked for a major high street chemist.