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Petition PE247 on epilepsy service provision, which was submitted by Epilepsy Action Scotland, calls for co-ordinated health and social services for people with epilepsy.
The proposal was sold to us as a great boon that would generate efficiency savings because co-ordination would mean that meetings were not cancelled and double bookings did not take place.
There must be doubt about whether the proposed means—the open method of co-ordination—is robust enough to produce a meaningful strategy in the complex area of structural funding.
A large part of the investment goes into track, which cannot be shifted elsewhere.This is a personal feeling, but I feel slight discomfort about the transport authority, although it might co-ordinate timetables even better than they are co-ordinated now.
We cannot anticipate the final outcome of the bill, but we have already started a dialogue with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities on key aspects such as the new regulatory framework and the co-ordination of future planning and investment.
A one-stop approach would allow the resources to be spent in a co-ordinated and cost effective way. This may seem like a blindingly obvious question, but why is that not happening?
I ask the representatives from the Association of Transport Co-ordinating Officers Scotland, Andrew Warrington and Max Thomson, to take a seat at the table.
Scotland already has a traffic controller and there are moves towards trying to co-ordinate everything that is happening. Co-ordination and managing congestion are more important than raising revenue.
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She went on to say that the devolved governments in the UK have discussed with the Chief Secretary to the Treasury the need to co-ordinate public sector pay across the UK in a way “that does not generate huge pressure for the devolved nations”.