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To ask the Scottish Government how long it took Healthcare Improvement Scotland, from the date of the inspection, to publish its announced inspection reports on care for older people in acute hospitals, broken down by NHS board.
We have also had tremendous support from the SPICe researchers; the press office; and the external engagement team, who have been as innovative as we wanted them to be, and more; and all the other departments without which the Parliament could not do its job. To date, every session of the Parliament has seen new challenges and questions for its committees....
The petitioner was invited to respond to the cabinet secretary’s submission but has not done so to date. NHS Tayside has advised that it has achieved its fundraising target for acquiring the magnetic resonance-guided focused ultrasound equipment and hopes that the system will be ready to treat the first patients in Scotland in 2021.
I have picked up that the NICE guidelines are not up to date. There is also a sense—I do not know whether this is true—that people who are unwell are not being believed and there is a shift from diagnosing to looking for other issues.
We can write to the petitioner saying that we have written to the Scottish Government to highlight the monitoring issue and that it is the petitioner’s right to produce another petition in a year’s time, but that we recognise how up to date the Government’s statement is and that any work that we did at this stage would just duplicate that.
I find it strange that even though a huge amount of progress has been made, there is still no confidence in what the Scottish Government has done to date. I agree with my colleague, Mr Findlay: it is an area that we really should be exploring.
The member will be aware that, in July, the Scottish Government announced that it would establish a recovery fund of up to £5 million to assist businesses that had been impacted by the Glasgow fires. To date, Glasgow City Council has paid out more than £2.9 million from that fund to 195 businesses.
In the circumstances, the Scottish Government has decided to revoke the instrument, to consider the policy issues that have been raised by the NFUS and in the other submissions that were not considered, and to lay a new order at a later date. Does anyone want to comment? It is disappointing that this has happened, but I think that the Government’s response,...
Computer systems can flag up something and send an automatic letter; it could be programmed in, I guess, from transfer date. Whose computer would that be? It would be the land registration body’s.