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If we are not to demoralise Scottish midwives, will she ask her officials to ensure that the changes required in working practice to implement the team midwifery systems—which are important for pre-conception, prenatal and postnatal care—are handled carefully?
However, item 6 concerns an issue that is very important for us and I would like it to be taken in public so that it is included in the Official Report. We can go then back and compare what we wanted to do with what has been done.
Thank you for calling me, Presiding Officer—persistence pays off.Does the First Minister believe that Scotland's ability to attract inward investment is enhanced by the appointment to the impartial position of part-time chairman of employment tribunals of a full-time trade union official? Interruption. The First Minister should know about such things.
The vast bulk of the committee's work on the matter must be in the Official Report—that will be important to people who are considering how we do our work.
We are grateful to the minister and his team for coming a little later than planned, because of our earlier delay.We are discussing an affirmative instrument of subordinate legislation: the Food Protection (Emergency Prohibitions) (Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning) (Orkney) (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 2000/192). If members would like to ask officials about any ...
Can Mr Wallace tells us whether he intends that the cross-party Scotland in Europe campaign should come out of the closet, or is it now officially dead in the water? Mr Salmond probably has quite enough on his plate without seeking a further meeting with me.
The opportunity would not be lost, at some time in the future—on the basis of practice—to reopen this question on the initiative of the parliament."—Official Report, House of Lords, 17 November 1998; Vol 594, c 1195.The door is open.
I am sure that Mrs Scanlon, as a front-bench spokesperson, recognises that we do rather well in Scotland. According to the last official figures, from April 1999, the vacancy rate was 1 per cent.