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To ask the Scottish Executive what auditing mechanisms are in place to oversee financial accountability of policing operations related to royal visits and engagements in Scotland to ensure that police forces maintain best value principles.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has calculated the cost to local businesses and individuals of any disruption caused by royal visits and events, and the cost of associated security arrangements, in each year since 1999.
I am aware that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has recently conducted a review of health visiting services as part of a wider policy of integrating services for children and young people in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will be involved in the joint bid by North and South Lanarkshire councils to host the 2011 International Children’s Games. I visited New LanarkshireLimited on 27 August 2007 and discussed their plans to bid for the 2011International Children’s Games.
An important point is that a country of 5 million people, such as Scotland, might need a different number of separate bodies compared with the United Kingdom, which can afford to build up more than one area of expertise on a particular issue.
It is impossible for us to tell at this time exactly where this is all leading, except that it is a contraction of particular services that we have at present.
(S3O-13126) I next expect to meet the chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde when I visit the board’s pharmacy distribution unit a week tomorrow.
I hope that, given the seriousness of the issue, and the speed with which the Government acted to address the concerns of the members of the public in Stonehaven whom I met when I visited the site, progress can be made as timeously as possible to ensure that stability is applied to the Bervie braes.