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To ask the Scottish Executive what systems are in place to monitor the working hours of NHS staff employed by an (a) NHS trust both under a primary contract and in its in-house bank and (b) agency under contract to the NHS.
Clearly, there is an appropriate time for planting of trees. Since we decided on the end date and focused on achieving it, everyone on the team has been determined to see the project through to completion by that date.
As members have no further points to make, do we agree that I should write to ask whether there are target dates for some of the commitments? I could ask whether there is any more information about target dates and circulate the letter to the relevant sections.Members indicated agreement.
Could the matter be reviewed when an announcement is made about the date of the election? If the day of the election is around the time of one of the meeting dates, it would make sense to shift the date to another Wednesday.
Secondly, we asked about the purpose and effect of the reference to the date of making an application, and about the three-week time limit specified in regulation 6(3).
The changes that we propose will ensure that eligibility is kept up to date and that no one falls out of the legal aid net because of the effects of inflation.The second issue is legal aid in relation to the new asylum and immigration tribunal and obstructive witnesses.
The grant scheme that has been introduced is worth while. The dates are important and the reduction in the length of the closed season has lessened the burden that the regulations would have imposed on Scottish agriculture.
That approach has been adopted in connection with the vast majority of stage 1 reports to date. However, I understand that the conveners liaison group will shortly consider whether to recommend to the Procedures Committee that rule 6.2.2(b) needs to be clarified.
At any one time, Scottish local authorities will have substantial sums held in the bank or in investments. Much of that money is spoken for and is held temporarily, on what the banks refer to as short-term call.