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In the NHS, monitoring is relatively easy, because a vast amount of expenditure is direct expenditure: we buy services, and we can set the outcomes against the services and see what we get for that direct spend.
I am afraid that I cannot, off the top of my head. Our work on best value tends to be with individual public bodies on the extent to which they are taking these issues into account when they set their budgets.10:15 I should clarify my role.
Our CVS is represented at every level in our CPP and has a seat at the top table on the community planning leadership group, which signs off the single outcome agreement.
Even by its own arithmetic, which I do not accept, the SNP received more than 99 per cent of that. On top of that, as Mr Swinney boasted today, it has access to £900 million more in end-year flexibility funding.
I could not justify that in terms of buying prison services on behalf of the taxpayer, because I would not just be buying any prison service; I would be buying it more expensively.
I make it clear to members and everyone else that we feel that the right to buy fishings is necessary and is part and parcel of a general crofting community right to buy.
How long someone lives and how soon they die can be a postcode lottery. It is a known fact that middle-class, wealthy women more often get breast cancer than working class women from deprived areas, but working class women from deprived areas are more likely to die from the disease.