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Community services throughout the rest of Scotland were also transferring to primary care trusts. The services from the four contracting professions were transferring from the 15 health boards to the primary care trusts.
As the issue is technical, I am happy to submit a note to the committee, but I will outline the matter briefly. Transfers of undertakings are, as the committee knows, governed by the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations—which are referred to as TUPE.
At UK level, we have done a lot of work with the Trades Union Congress on the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations, which deal with the ways in which staff are transferred or seconded between the public and private sectors.
The Subordinate Legislation Committee considered the regulations at its meeting on 26 February and determined that the attention of Parliament need not be drawn to them.
At this stage, only about 300 children come into primary 1 in Gaelic-medium education every year throughout Scotland. On the other side of the coin, 1,500 Gaelic speakers die every year.
However, it is estimated that each year more than 13,000 people in Scotland die from smoking-related diseases, including lung cancer, coronary heart disease and stroke.Specific morbidity data related to obesity in Scotland is not held centrally.