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What will the minister do to ensure the greater use of parenting orders, given that not one has been issued to date? Plainly, parenting orders have not been particularly successful thus far.
For the Scottish Ambulance Service and for NHS 24, we have agreed slightly higher targets of 5 per cent and 6 per cent respectively. The date for achieving those targets is March 2009.
After all, here we are before the summer recess, setting out to Parliament our intention to legislate.The consultation will of course be open to contraction and convergence and other questions—the Government will carefully examine the evidence.
We are talking about a company that is operating profitably in a global recession with increasing demand but which has chosen to downsize and shed hundreds of loyal workers.
There is a very clear understanding that we find ourselves in exceptional circumstances; this recession looks different to more normal recessions, if I can use that term.
There is a certain amount of engineering work to be done that will influence what the actual date will be, but that is the working target date at the moment.
Would accelerating things help in this recessionary period? If the recession lasts two to four years, will you not be at the stage of doing the majority of your capital maintenance by then?