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If we do not finish the consideration of a petition between now and the dissolution, the petition will not necessarily die. We will have the power to keep the matter live, if we feel that further work can be done on it.
I would like to know about the other side of the coin and the ability of the health service to provide trained personnel to deliver such services throughout Scotland.
It is very welcome.Scottish Hospital Trust (Transfer of Property) Regulations 2004 (draft) Scottish Hospital Trust (Transfer of Property) Regulations 2004 (draft) A lot of issues were raised initially about the draft Scottish Hospital Trust (Transfer of Property) Regulations ...
After four years, we have the highest employment figures for 40 years, the lowest unemployment figures for 26 years, record cuts in youth unemployment, record cuts in long-term unemployment and growth in the first quarter of 2001 of over 2 per cent.
Is not it disgraceful that pensioners are more likely to die of cold in Scotland than they are in Finland, Canada, Norway and even Siberia, where temperatures can plunge to -32°C?
The literature is clear that deliberative processes should embody some aspects, if not all, of the following democratic norms: inclusivity, transparency, popular control and considered judgement, and the institutional goods of efficiency and transferability (Smith 20091Smith, G. (2009).