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The cabinet secretary referred to the provision of an additional 600 cleaners in the NHS, which will mean an extra 32 cleaners in my health board, Forth Valley NHS Board.
We will see what we can do, but it will be difficult to fit in an extra meeting. We have five unprogrammed committee meetings at the end of May and in June.
The definition of the word "consent" is key to later provisions in the bill.We do not think by any means that there should be an absolutely definite definition of the term "free agreement", but we would like there to be an extra little bit of guidance on how the public—juries in particular—and the police should interpret the meaning of the word "consent".
I believe that such a move has significantly benefited carers, who have been able to get something like an extra two days off a year for caring reasons.We have tried to offer those with significant caring responsibilities support for respite care.
It called for the increase in wages for those staff directly employed by disabled people to be fully funded.iiInclusion Scotland, written evidence.
Extra costs of disability
According to last year’s SCOPEiDisability Price Tag 2023: the extra cost of disability | Disability charity Scope UK figures, the additional co...
During the election, we were clear that we wanted 1,500 extra police officers; the Government was clear that it wanted 1,000 extra officers, although that policy was swiftly abandoned.
The work is under NHS management, but our staff’s property expertise and commercial skills provide an extra resource to take some very big sites forward.