This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
The NPD programme includes around 50 large, complex projects which are being procured by more than 30 different procuring authorities. For many of the procuring authorities, this will be a new form of procurement.
If that were happening elsewhere in the country, folk would probably not be going into hospital unnecessarily on as many occasions. That practice has been picked up in certain other parts of the country, but not in many others.
Is any follow-up work planned to survey those who were successfully elected to get a picture of how many female councillors there are and how many councillors there are, according to age bracket, education level and socioeconomic background?
All of these have to select where their attention and limited resources are to be focused in the face of many potential matters identified by their own work or drawn to their attention by altruistically motivated or individually disgruntled groups and individuals.