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The hard truth is that such organisations sell their products on and are part of a huge supply chain. It is easy to pick on the automotive sector, but if you stop manufacturing cars, you also stop manufacturing the plastic bits in cars, which means that the polymers industry and the petrochemicals industry get hit—the chain goes right back to the offshore o...
If the 1.5 per cent efficiency target is insufficient to command confidence on the Labour benches, will Wendy Alexander set out, in the interest of consensus, what level of efficiency savings would command confidence from Labour?
I believe that they are a scarce commodity. Does that mean that they will command higher salaries? I am not sure about commanding higher salaries, but they are a scarce commodity, as you rightly point out.
However, what we have in a so-called tight financial settlement is nearly 20 per cent growth over three years in the budget that is under your command. In this particular area. In the areas for which you are responsible.
Overtime is used sparingly and well by commanders, inspectors and chief constables.The other area of great difficulty is our capital grant, which Arthur Midwinter mentioned.
We must consider innovative solutions to particular problems, and solutions must command public confidence. It is important to ensure that different concepts and different ways of working are properly tested and evaluated to guarantee that they command public confidence.
From time to time, we hear—at least anecdotally—concerns about the employment of locum doctors from foreign countries, whose command of English may not be particularly strong.