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On section 16, "Ancillary provision", does the committee consider that the response from the member in charge, Jamie McGrigor, provides acceptable justification to depart from the preference that we have previously expressed for the draft affirmative procedure to apply where power is taken to amend primary legislation?
I should say to Angela Constance that the process has changed slightly since she last attended the committee, after one or two petitioners expressed concern that those chosen to give oral submissions were a matter of alleged authoritarian executive decisions taken by your convener.
It is not intended that the power to impose sanctions would include the power to create a criminal offence. The lack of an express provision to that effect reflects that intention.
We need to put an end to that.Although she has not really articulated it this morning, I understand the concern that Mary Scanlon has previously expressed about the cost of the measure to business.
Eventually, when the full detail of the UK Environment Bill is visible, I hope not only that the final arrangements for the office for environmental protection will become clear but that we will get a stronger sense of some of the priorities. To give credit where credit is due, some of the work that has been done on ...
Latest data available - 1 April to 30 June 2009. D. No core site in Orkney. Due to the different methods of data collection, caution should be taken when comparing the two tables.
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Date answered:
23 November 2009
Table 2 shows both the number of A&E departments (core sites) and the number of smaller hospitals offering A&E services and minor injury units (non core sites) per 100,000 population, for the years 2007 to 2009.
They all wandered in just as I was preparing to deliver my closing speech in the debate on mental health, so for a moment I thought that I might be more of a crowd puller than I am generally given credit for. The work that they do nationally, regionally and locally really deserves credit and our gratitude.
Great appreciation for its facilities has been expressed to me by friends in Aberdeenshire who have stayed there while having treatment at Aberdeen royal infirmary.