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Following on from David Stewart’s question about where we are in terms of workforce, how is the situation being taken into account for future workforce planning?
MSPs are elected to represent their constituents and, amongst other things, hold Ministers to account; Ministers, in turn, are accountable to the Parliament.
Health boards are completely remote from the lives of the people they serve. They are accountable to the centre, yet they have to interact on a daily basis with councils that are accountable to local communities.
Indeed, the final figures for 2011 show that renewable generation accounted for an equivalent 36 per cent of gross Scottish electricity demand, which is well ahead of our interim target of 31 per cent.
However, I think that the parent council chairs might get an hour with a lay inspector. There is nothing wrong with lay inspectors—they are fantastic people—but we need a deeper involvement.