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On Tuesday evening, the First Minister and I hosted a reception at Edinburgh castle for guests from the film and screen industries who are in Edinburgh for the 65th edition of our world-renowned international film festival.
I tried to find a topic and a motion that would attract support from all parts of the chamber—we will see whether I have been successful at decision time.On Monday evening, I attended a reception for our Paralympians in the national museum of Scotland.
The report was making the point that there is now a more varied landscape and the health service needs to respond to that by providing more information, a point that we accept entirely because of what we have been saying.11:45 Dr Morrison spoke earlier about triage. I have worked in the admin or reception areas of hospital accident and emergency departments...
There are a variety of reasons. Young people are fairly receptive to the ideas and the agenda. Education is a closed and defined community, so it is easy to target and engage.
Our principal activities will now be more focused on developing a receptive shareholder base through a variety of mechanisms that do not destabilise the markets but achieve a good result for the taxpayer's investment of approximately £60 billion in the equity of the banking sector.
Assisted-living technology has already been mentioned.Generally, the providers have been receptive to the notion that, in the current situation, it is reasonable that, if we must find efficiencies, they must find efficiencies.
There is churn as people go to and from court, in and out of prison, and through the reception process. Our resources would be far better employed in delivering treatment and rehabilitation programmes and other interventions.
Public bodies or other bodies will say, "We are doing all these things, we have a wonderful document, and we get a plaque for our reception area." Such initiatives will rarely involve the staff at the sharp end.