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I will ensure that Renfrewshire is considered by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Many factors are taken into account at this stage, but the most important is organisational readiness.
As democratically elected bodies, local authorities are directly responsible for managing their own expenditure, taking into account their statutory duty of best value, set out by the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003.
What the SPCB does in that respect is what private sector companies are required to do by the Accounting Standards Board, which lays down reporting requirements for United Kingdom companies.
Renters do not even know whether their landlord has a criminal history, and they still have little power to hold their landlord accountable for maintaining homes to a habitable standard.
Clearly, we cannot have a situation in which anyone can walk in off the street and call themselves a lay representative. There will be a register of accredited lay representatives.
That is utter nonsense—Opposition parties should be holding the Government to account on what it has done and what it plans to do, not on what it says it has done.
The foundations of quantum mechanics lay in James Clerk Maxwell’s work. Maxwell was not just a great researcher and theoretical physicist; he was a teacher, too.