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I trust that you will not be tempted to write too many articles on the internal workings of the Rural Development Committee. However, I welcome you warmly to our number.We have one other housekeeping matter to deal with.
(S1O-3812) There have been no such specific discussions, because questions on the structure of the Scottish water and sewerage industry, and how it should develop in a more competitive environment, are matters for the Scottish Parliament.
The Minister for Environment and Rural Development will be discussing with the other UK agriculture ministers the best way to put a case to the European Union that will result in exports recommencing.
To achieve those goals, we are developing better-integrated services for children, breaking down barriers between health and social care and focusing criminal justice services on results.
Subordinate Legislation The first instrument is the Feeding Stuffs (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (SSI 2000/453). The Rural Development Committee considered the regulations at its meeting on 30 January and had no comments to make.
Does the minister agree that, whatever happens in the McCrone negotiations, there is already a developing crisis in the availability of supply primary teachers in almost every part of Scotland—a situation that will be exacerbated by winter illness?
I assure him that we work hard to ensure that the wider regulatory regime within which we operate, which includes data protection regulation—also an area of great change—is used effectively so that when we develop policies and practices within the NHS it is as part of that wider regulatory arrangement.
Invitations I refer members to a letter that we received from Scottish and Southern Energy plc, which invites us to visit the hydro control centre at Clunie near Pitlochry and to hear a presentation on the electricity network in Scotland and the development of renewables.In light of how we have handled such invitations previously, we may wish to defer cons...