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Diabetes managed clinical network managers provide the Scottish diabetes group with regular updates on delivery and we are encouraged by the progress that has been made to date. The cabinet secretary will be well aware that diabetes is the main cause of blindness in people of working age and is responsible for half the non-traumatic lower limb amputations.
If we opt for weekly meetings, the dates will be in members' diaries. We must be rational and logical about what we do in committee.My concern is that if we move to fortnightly meetings and then discover that we have more business, the pressure will be on not to have an extra meeting.
We have almost moved the target and said, “Try to outperform that budget and don’t bank the outperformance because a lot of it is down to the recession.”In Scotland’s case, because of the timing of the advice, we were able to allow for the recession.
The card will include people's picture, name, gender, place and date of birth, an issue date, an expiry date, a unique national identity register number, people's nationality and immigration status, and two fingerprints—that is all.
The section largely reflects the requirements of article 6 of the EU victims directive.Amendment 24, in my name, introduces two new paragraphs to section 3(6), to clarify that victims and witnesses can access information about the location, time and date of any appeal arising from a trial as well as accessing information in relation to the trial itself.
Again, there have been relatively few applications: three have been successful to date, one has been turned down and there are no applications outstanding.
It is like a Parisian version of the Boris bike but with electric vehicles as opposed to bikes, although bikes can also be hired. They do not have Barclays Bank adverts on the side, do they? No.
That is potentially the overspend, depending on what the ultimate implementation date is. I do not like to exaggerate; I always like to present my case on the basis of fact.
It would probably be helpful at some stage in the bill process to make sure that we have appropriate comment on the record that could be referred to by courts at a later date to help to understand our intention.