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Our support has helped Scotland’s airports to secure new routes to other parts of the United Kingdom, and to Europe, the Middle East, North America and China, including Emirates’ new service from Edinburgh to Dubai.
Some important issues were raised in the sub-committee that we should certainly monitor, such as the delays in processing and how the new restriction of liberty orders are working.
A £5 billion investment programme in Scotland’s railways is committed over the five-year period to 2019, including 70 new high-spec electric trains for delivery from 2017 and 75 new sleeper vehicles for delivery from 2018.
I am certainly looking forward to welcoming our Paralympians and Olympians home at a reception next week at Oriam, our new national sports performance centre at Heriot-Watt University.
That said, I know that fraud in social security is low. The latest Department for Work and Pensions figures show that the total estimated loss to fraud is £2.3 billion a year.
We now have a whole section of society being treated as social pariahs for offering help to pregnant women, and proposed new legislation is simply endorsing that.
The instrument that we are considering today has not been withdrawn, but will be superseded by a new order. Do members agree that the committee will make no recommendations on the order?
New Eye Hospital (NHS Lothian) Yesterday, NHS Lothian informed local elected representatives that Scottish National Party ministers had informed it that they were withdrawing funding for the new eye hospital for Lothian.