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Mental Health Unscheduled care
There were significant falls in the use of unscheduled care for mental health problems compared to the pattern seen in previous years, with a sharp fall of 30-40% in out of hours contacts for mental health problems, starting in early March 2020.
A&E attendances for mental health problems fell by 40-50% from early March 2020 and by the beginning of September had still not fully recovered, remaining at around 10% below previous levels.
UK to publish legal texts
On 9 March, the UK Government published a written statement to the UK Parliament which reflected the same issues as the Number 10 media blog statement.
The SPPA Committee issued a call for views on 6 February 2024. The call for views closed on 6 March 2024. The SPPA Committee took oral evidence over four meetings on 21 March 2024, 28 March 2024, 18 April 2024 and 2 May 2024.
Whilst one former Minister considered that oppositional and adversarial politics from the early days of the Parliament had persisted,6Summary note of discussions with former Minister. (2023, March 16). Retrieved from <a href="https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/finance-and-public-administration-committee/summary-note-of-16-march-2023-discussions.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/committees/finance-and-public-administration-committee/summary-note-of-16-march-2023-discussions.pdf</a> others suggested that Scottish politics had recently become more binary or ‘yes/no’.
Official Report, 8 March 2022, Col 6
The Minister acknowledged this analysis but argued that as well as the significant impact for the individuals involved in those cases, the measures also had the wider impact of preventing cases coming to the Tribunal at all.
Retrieved from https://www.nafc.uhi.ac.uk/research/eez-reports/eez-report-11/ [accessed 27 March 2020]The UK Government wants to redress this imbalance of fishing opportunities available to UK fishing fleets under the relative stability principle.
The Highlands and Islands Enterprise Business Panel published results of its survey of businesses in the area carried out between February and March 20198Highlands and Islands Enterprise. (2019, May 2).
Voters should be presented with a choice, where the consequences of either outcome are clear."3House of Commons. (2017, March 7). Twelfth Report of the 2009-10 Session, Lessons learned from the EU Referendum, paragraph 19.