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We are however aware that it can be effective for some phobias and addictions and understand the benefit of complementary medicine approaches where they are helpful to individuals.
We will intensify our work to ensure that Scotland gets the right to choose its own future, and we invite every member in this chamber to endorse that right and help to obtain it.
If I am hearing you right, you are saying that if we do not lodge an LCM, the UK Government could choose to not embed powers for Scottish ministers in the bill, and that, if there were an LCM, those powers would be embedded in the bill.
Other amendments would undermine the intent of the Bill in Ministers’ ability to regulate and to address the risk presented by the non-surgical procedures covered by the Bill.
As such, the relevant provisions in the Bill are intended to ensure that any child who is to be deprived of their liberty will receive rights-based psychological and trauma informed responses in age appropriate and therapeutic environments, which will normally be secure accommodation.
What the Bill does not do
The Bill does not extend adultery as a ground to establish the irretrievable breakdown of a civil partnership, although it remains available in both same sex and different sex marriage.
(S6O-01778) The Covid recovery strategy contains more than 70 actions that will support people across Scotland, and particularly those most affected during the pandemic.
NHS Dumfries and Galloway has been allocated resource associated with recovery from long COVID from both the COVID Recovery fund and the national Mental Health After COVID Hospitalisation (MACH) project.