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In their old age, they are haunted by the terrible fear of what will happen to their children when they die. I support Enable's call to local authorities to count the number of older carers of people with learning disabilities.
That is why scouting has lasted for 100 years.Robert Brown's motion also calls for support for the centenary 7 On appeal to help raise that £2 million.
However, in Irvine and the three towns people die 20 years earlier than those in Largs and the north coast—Glasgow has exactly the same challenges in a far more compact geographical area.
However, once the Scottish Government had railroaded through the bill at stage 1—let us not forget that it secured the support of no party in the Parliament save the Scottish National Party—the die was cast. Even an avalanche of amendments—we have debated about 115 of them at stage 3—has been insufficient.Despite what we have heard from the cabinet secretar...
However, if you gave all the environmental, social and economic policy functions to one committee, I think that it would die of overload.George Adam has had a good idea, but given that the Scottish Parliament has fewer members than the UK Parliament, the policy audit function probably has to remain with the Scottish Parliament’s subject committees.
I am particularly aware of constituents who have been caught out by the tragic loss of a young person in their family—they had not anticipated that the person would die so young and had therefore not saved for that.With a supply-led approach, we could have a situation in which someone dies towards the end of the financial year, and there is no money for the...
We are pleased that Scottish ministers recently agreed to meet the commission to discuss how to put those recommendations into an action plan to implement the framework that we proposed, taking into account the pragmatic constraints of Government while upholding the principle that all survivors of human rights abuses should have access to justice and effective remedies.We hope that that process will reflect the urgency of ensuring that justice be done before more survivors die...
More than 55,000 people in Scotland die each year. Eighty per cent of those deaths occur in patients aged 65 years and over; 60 per cent occur in those aged over 75 years.
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Date answered:
21 March 2011
The use of antisocial behaviour measures covering the period October 2004 to March 2008, including dispersal orders, can be found on the Scottish Government website at www.scotland.gov.uk. Information beyond that date is not held centrally.