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Buying external expertise is expensive compared with hiring that expertise internally—if one thinks that one will have a regular need for that expertise.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 February 2005
However, we now estimate that, for the most recent month, the number of transactions is down by about 53 per cent compared with the same month last year.
Over the past week or two, I have made a number of visits to local authorities around the country, in particular to follow up on child protection inspections.
The organisation on the receiving end of the inspection is getting one visit from inspectors who are more broadly trained and are able to carry out a broader inspection, which minimises the burden on the organisation.
Are there any constraints or hold-ups in thinking and activity that we might be able to nudge forward? During our visit to the Scottish Prison Service, we were struck by the amount of data that it presented to us.
What happened to Queensland? The suggestion for a visit to the European Parliament was that we might wish to compare committee weeks and plenary weeks.
The aim being to prevent people becoming ill, to lengthen healthy life expectancyiHealthy life expectancy is an estimate of how many years someone might live in a healthy state, compared to life expectancy which estimates how many years a person might be expected to live.
Indeed, the coincidence of our doing a regulatory framework review, which we flagged up the last time that we visited the committee, is fortunate, as it means that we can take into account in that review the issues that the legislation raises.