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That review will examine the partnership between the Executive, the voluntary sector and local government to see what can be done to improve funding commitments and make them more effective. Officials have already had informal talks with the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations and the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities.
Last week, he told me at question time that the number of nurses in Scotland fell under the Conservatives. This week, official figures show that, during our time in office, the number of nurses increased by almost 6,000 to 51,472 in 1997.
Let me quote what the First Minister said last week:"We can play around with numbers in this chamber all we like … What matters is the experience of that individual."—Official Report, 29 November 2001; c 4391.I have highlighted the case of an individual who cannot even get on the waiting list for a long wait to get a referral dealt with by the Royal hospita...
Those obligations are considerable if we are to provide subsidy to shipping services.As recently as within the past 10 days, my officials visited Vestas to consider the additional business that might be associated with the reinstatement of the service.
As the committee will be aware, three issues have been proposed for discussion by Executive officials. The paper before us, document PR/01/12/2, aims to address each of those in turn, and proposes what I hope are sensible, workable solutions.
The acting First Minister will recall that in launching the consultation document on modernising public appointments, Mr Jack McConnell said that the big issue is"who is appointed and how they are selected."—Official Report, 9 February 2000; Vol 11, c 846.This week, I received from Angus MacKay an answer to a written question.
The convener and the reporters had a meeting with Executive officials a few weeks ago. We are currently waiting for a formal response from the minister and would expect to receive that in the next week or so.