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The Policy Memorandum to the Bill indicates that the shorter timeframe proposed for local elections compared to Scottish Parliament elections is to allow time for the Parliament to legislate for a longer delay should it be required.
It will be important for us to set out some comparative statistics, so that people do not think that this is a dreadful day, compared with past settlements.
I wonder whether, in the future, it would be possible for comparative figures to be given. It is not clear whether the figures represent simply an inflationary uprating for the previous two years or something else.
We are thinking of using our newly developing videoconferencing facilities to develop videoconferencing visiting between patients and families so that the families are able to visit two or three times a week by videoconference rather than once a week or once a fortnight.