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To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason optometrists are not used to carry out pre-school vision screening in cases where orthoptists are not available.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
26 November 2009
Five potential bidders participated in a pre-qualifying questionnaire process from which three were short-listed on the basis of their demonstrative ability to construct a healthcare project of this scale and complexity.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
10 December 2007
He says that the new prices that he has been quoted are the pre-2007 prices plus 50 per cent. In specific cases, he thinks that his freight bill will rise by 60 per cent.
Why do we need to abandon an element of the UNCRC even before it comes into force, without relying on the pre-existing way for such decisions to be made?
This is not a national strategy that we can choose whether to implement; it is a requirement in the bill to embed such provision in practice in Scotland. I do not want to pre-empt the decision of the Parliamentary Bureau, but I think that it is likely that the Human Trafficking and Exploitation (Scotland) Bill will come to this committee.
The committee will decide whether to accord recognition to the group and you will then be notified. I cannot pre-empt what my colleagues are going to say, but I imagine that the fact that answers to the questions are awaited will not cause a problem.Agenda item 5 is the opportunity for the committee to discuss the evidence that it has heard from Jean Urquha...