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Joint planning based on individually assessed needs is the only safe and sensible way to proceed and is the best way to arrive at a successful and sustainable transfer from hospital care. That is why "Our National Health: A plan for action, a plan for change" unequivocally underlines our commitment to improving and integrating planning and decision making s...
However, a lack of clarity in the document prevents identification of the underspends in one programme that are transferred to another. It was difficult to ascertain whether planned spending had actually risen.
One or two stations have reopened and freight, specifically timber, has been transferred from the roads to rail. Although that partnership is voluntary and anyone could walk away from it, that level of investment and joint working could not have been achieved if the companies had not signed up to it.
We now come to the issue with which we are actually meant to be dealing, which is slightly less controversial. To summarise, clauses 26 and 27 will give powers to the Scottish ministers, but only to tidy up European legislation.
I hope that, when the agreement is made elsewhere in the UK, the Scottish Green party will welcome it. At 5.30 on 26 September, an Iranian mother and her two children, who live in Morningside in my constituency, were subjected to a dawn raid.
The figures for secondary education fall to 101 teachers who are able to teach and only 26 who are doing so. We must write to the Executive to find out why teachers are not teaching in Gaelic.
Before closing what has been a rapid meeting, I inform members that our next meeting is expected to take place on Tuesday 3 May 2005. Meeting closed at 13:26.
If not, are there any comments on the other post-council reports: the agriculture and fisheries council on 26 and 27 April and the justice and home affairs council on 29 April?