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I appreciate that with the United Kingdom budget not being delivered until 11 March, we do not yet have precise figures to inform our budget settlement.
On in-patients and day cases, the report says: “The number who waited over the guaranteed 12 weeks for their treatment increased by over 800 per cent, from 1,450 in the quarter ending March 2013 to 13,300 in the quarter ending March 2017.
Based on data from 60, 59 and 59 PTI practices that submitted complete GP and practice nurse data for the years ending 31 March 2010, 2011 and 2011 respectively.
I have made that point repeatedly in the chamber—not least in the debate in March this year on bringing the Clyde up to good environmental status by 2020.
Members will be aware that the policy has proved to be extremely popular with the public and that take-up continues to grow. In the year ended 31 March 2013, there were more than 1.9 million examinations, which equates to 36 per cent of Scotland’s population.
We are of course used to the Scottish Government telling us that the grass will be greener on the other side of the independence referendum, but it seems an unnecessarily speculative detail in this debate as it is too dependent on the unresolved issue of what would happen to Scotland’s EU membership post-independence. As I said back in March, it is difficul...
That is not true. The Daycare Trust’s report of March 2013 made it clear that Scotland has cheaper nursery places and childcare overall compared with south of the border.
Those included surfacing, signing, lining and bend assessments and were completed in March this year. There are no plans to introduce further measures.