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Like me, the minister is a former full-time trade union official, so he will know about the disputes that can often occur between unions, never mind between unions and employers.
Ministers have given adequate assurances that the legislation will be reviewed in good time before the general inspections of children's services start in 2008.
The amendment of the 1976 act changes the list; it tries to reflect the relationships that I outlined. This is the first time that I have heard about the matter and I am trying to understand it.
In a sense, I am disappointed that the petitioners did not address my question on that. I know that time is limited, but perhaps that is something that the committee could bear in mind.
We acknowledge, having considered similar institutions around the world, that there is a period of time before one starts to see major outputs from the ITIs.
About three of us here were on the committee at the time. The rest of the members will have no idea what they are talking about—that will not be new.
That is a reasonable way to take into account the hospitals where car parking has already been charged for over a considerable time. Is that course of action agreed to?
As some volunteers might have been childminders, for example, before they came to Homestart and so have already been through the process, it seems a waste of time and money for the organisation to go through the process again.