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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 October 2019
The Scottish Government recognises that agency nurses can provide valuable assistance within an overall strategy of service provision, but expects Boards to minimise their use.
The Member accepted that such thefts were “extremely rare” but that, in his view, the proposed aggravation was the “right thing to do” in circumstances of theft of an assistance dog and what he described as the “double whammy” of losing vital assistance along with a much-loved companion.
I want to ask about your new employability programmes and Skills Development Scotland, as well as about the general relationship between employability programmes and skills.
Review of Evidence Session (in private): The Committee will consider the evidence it heard earlier under agenda item 4. 6. Work programme (in private): The Committee will consider its work programme.
We are already investing in early diagnostic centres for cancers, and we have been investing in the detect cancer early programme for some time and continue to invest in that programme.
It allows Ministers to specify in regulations “regulatory body” with who the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission may disclose information about complaints “for the purpose of enabling or assisting a regulatory body [as defined] to exercise any of the body’s functions”.
It allows Ministers to specify in regulations “regulatory body” with who the Scottish Legal Complaints Commission may disclose information about complaints “for the purpose of enabling or assisting a regulatory body [as defined] to exercise any of the body’s functions”.