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A study carried out in Tower Hamlets about three years ago—I am afraid that I cannot quote the specific details although I could try to find the study—showed clearly that, when people moved from poor-quality, damp housing to new-build housing with good energy efficiency, the number of visits to the local general practitioner dropped by about 95 per cent.
I have certainly had a go at that, even though I have not visited all the distilleries.Today, we have brought to the attention of the Parliament a problem that affects a Scottish industry, but there are ways to solve it.
Committee members might want to pay a visit and see that for themselves. Do you know of any other examples of voluntary agreements with the tobacco industry being ignored?
They introduced a family liaison officer who was supposed to be with us throughout. She visited us for three days. I do not think that we were told that the second accused was being charged.
Services should be organised around the patient, instead of having the patient trail round different parts of different hospitals, different buildings and different professionals.Gerry Marr mentioned redesign more generally. For example, when I visited the new Hairmyres hospital recently, the cardiologist there gave me a presentation on how cardiology servi...
Despite what the agriculture commissioner, Dr Fischler, said about allowing subsidiarity in a Scottish context when he visited our office in October, it does not seem to be as easy to tell that to his officials, as David Dickson explained earlier.There is in-fighting among the environment directorate-general, the legal services DG and the agriculture DG in ...
Furthermore, page 8 of my submission highlights the fact that, for every person whose benefit issue is dealt with by a solicitor, 100 people visit a CAB. You said that about 19 per cent of calls went unanswered.
I urge him to act and to act now—it is obvious that the fisheries minister will not.Tomorrow, my colleague Mike Russell and I will visit the wonderful Scottish Fisheries Museum in Anstruther, which is dedicated to an industry that is the life-blood of so many of our coastal communities.
Our rateable value was around £130,000 on each of 10 properties, so with a work force of 470 people that amounted to a head tax of £1,382 per person.A manufacturing plant I visited recently in Mid Scotland and Fife pays £1,500,000 in business rates.