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This is yet to be decided as the board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has been clear that they first need to take full account of the recommendations of the National Review of Maternity and Neonatal Services, which we expect to be published in 2017.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the announcement of the Scottish Growth Scheme, how its assessment of applicant companies’ growth plans will take into account the impact of the UK's decision to leave the EU.
In setting out implementation timetable we need to take legal, financial and delivery issues sensibly into account and consequently it is too early at this stage to confirm exact timescales.
The decision in relation to the timing of a future Crofting Bill will be made in due course, taking into account discussions with stakeholders and the other legislative priorities of the Scottish Government.
As the cabinet secretary is aware, the UK internal market accounts for more than 60 per cent of Scotland’s trade, but Scotland has only one trade promotion office in the rest of the UK, compared to 32 trade offices in other markets across the world.
We still expect to be able to offer first doses to everyone over 50, all unpaid carers and all adults with an underlying health condition by mid-April. Taking into account all of what I have just reported, I think that there is little doubt that things are firmly heading in the right direction at the moment.
We previously provided support for B and Bs that did not have business bank accounts, and we are extending the support to B and Bs that do not pay business rates, as I explained in my response to Mr Halcro Johnston.
Those should be sufficiently detailed to make clear what the panel members decided, why they made each decision, what information they relied on, what outcomes the decision is designed to bring about and what the child’s views are and that those views have been taken into account. The Scottish Government also highlights that the statutory procedural rules ...
There were a number of complex issues, including the fact that some of them did not have business bank accounts, and we had to seek to circumvent those matters.