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Before I do that, it is right to record that the board fully accepts the audit report as an accurate description of the 2017-18 financial position and the performance that was delivered by NHS Tayside up to March 2018. I also say up front that, although we note that the Auditor General has acknowledged that the agreement that NHS Tayside reached with the fo...
We are already locked into that; we will have to do a considerable amount of additional work between now and next March. That is the simple reality. Of greater importance, perhaps, is that there is a dawning realisation in some sectors that they will have to make exceptional preparations.
We also talk about the diploma taking a year, but most diploma courses start in September and are finished by the end of the March, so they actually last only about six months.
In 2015, Police Scotland introduced a new model for the delivery of firearms licensing across Scotland, and, in March 2018, Her Majesty’s inspectorate of constabulary in Scotland published its local policing inspection and firearms licensing report.
At the moment, we have to think about 2018-19. The plan that we submitted in March projected that a potential £20 million would be required for 2018-19.
Cabinet secretary, you will recall that a commitment was given during the budget scrutiny that we would receive data on integration joint boards by the end of March, but it has still not arrived. Do you want to comment on that?
The amendment addresses circumstances such as the recent changes to personal independence payments, which the United Kingdom Government has accepted are unlawful. The changes, which were made in March 2017, prevented people with mental health problems or psychological distress from being eligible for the enhanced mobility component of PIP.
Did the mainland councils with islands feel that the campaign was not for them, or did the island councils steal the march on you? I think that the point that I made—perhaps badly—was that in North Ayrshire we were fully engaged in the our islands, our future work, which set the context for our continued involvement in the next stages.