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The definition of habitual residence is not set out in legislation but instead has been developed by case law, that is, the branch of law created by the courts in previously decided cases.
They must also consult trade unions and professional bodies when developing guidance.
Amendments to the process not agreed to included creating an Assisted Dying Review Panel to determine eligibility, prohibiting doctors from initiating discussions about assisted dying, and establishing a new administrative body.
Your comments on "A Smart, Successful Scotland" and allowing localities to develop it for their areas answer Annabel Goldie's point about local flavour and flexibility.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
13 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding it has made available for the provision of child care in the current financial year and what proportion of this funding is ring-fenced, broken down by local authority area.
There is certainly an issue about how such organisations are funded and, like Pauline McNeill, I regret the fact that the Scottish Human Rights Centre had to fold.
Anyone who has gone through an election campaign knows that that issue is raised time and again on the doorsteps. There are problems with the funding of community care. Local authorities are struggling to fund it.
Due to the weather conditions that resulted in the closure of Edinburgh airport this morning, the witnesses from the Skipton Fund are seriously delayed and cannot get here at the originally scheduled time.
We have committed to providingone more year of funding for the incentive scheme. The scheme will be evaluatedand the results of this will feed into policy considerations on workforce developmentgenerally.
Another £150 million or so is available through the rural developmentfund. Would any of you like to chance your arm and say that some of that money should be directed away from where it is channelled at the moment to other kinds of improvement?