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It is a country in which, UNICEF estimates, 250 people die every day. In 1996, it was reported that 4,500 children under the age of five die each month from hunger and disease in Iraq.
Some local authorities carry insurance—they go out and buy policies to insure themselves—and some authorities are self-insuring in so far as they believe that they have sufficient funds to allow them to cover any claims that they may have.
How would you feel about the criminal justice system having a pot of money that enabled it to buy in services such as yours when it was felt that a woman needed support?
Our commitment to choice is clear in the bill's provisions on direct payments, top-up payments for care home places and the creation of a deferred payments scheme.
That tool to improve patient choice and to drive waiting times down has resulted in one Aberdeen GP saying that most people have looked at the website, fallen about laughing and not looked again.
The Parliament has made great strides in giving advance notice of its recesses. The website has dates on it for recesses up until the beginning of 2003, which is marvellous.
At the best of times—never mind during the current situation with property prices—people stretch themselves to the limit to buy property. If purchasers find that they are faced with an enormous additional bill of not just a couple of hundred pounds but a couple of thousand pounds, that can have catastrophic consequences for individuals.