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It is therefore not possible to provide an average time that a post has remained vacant. The latest published consultant staff in post and consultant vacancy figures for NHS Grampian and NHS Scotland as at 30 June 2016 are shown in the following table:- Consultant Staff in Post Total Vacancies Vacant for 6 months or more Total Vacancies as % of Estab...
Further to this, the government have made a commitment in the latest manifesto to extend the small business bonus scheme, so 100,000 of our small businesses will be removed from business rates completely.
Some of the most difficult pieces of correspondence that I get at the moment come from grandparents who are desperate to see and hold their grandchildren. Given that we are moving into a new phase, with mass testing, will the minister consider introducing a scheme that uses a combination of testing and voluntary self-isolation to enable family members safely to visit older relatives in self-isolation?
Loch Lomond Brewery tells me that a barcode for Scotland will cost hundreds of pounds, that it will need separate labels for bottles sold in Scotland and bottles sold elsewhere and that it will have to spend hundreds of pounds incorporating barcodes for each label and thousands of pounds on new machines to collect recycled bottles.