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It is ludicrous that weapons as devastating as grenade launchers and serious assault rifles are subject to lax control at best, while the trade in harmless commodities—such as the aforementioned bananas—is strictly regulated globally.
As he said, community transport is particularly important in rural areas such as Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, where public transport is at best infrequent and sometimes non-existent.Community transport services such as those that are provided by the Annandale Transport Initiative are very important in my constituency.
In essence, we are looking for a similar approach in Scotland.That brings me back to what I said about how local decisions are not necessarily best in the context of rare diseases.
Suffice it to say that it would be counter-productive for the payment of the living wage to be mandatory; it must instead be voluntary. If we are to do the best for our children in poverty, the least that they deserve is for us as politicians to be open to listening to views that may differ from our own.
Angus College in my home area has been the lead partner in a Leonardo da Vinci project that is developing and sharing best practice that was developed in Scotland on teaching soft skills—as they are known nowadays—to people who might struggle to find employment, so that they build confidence to go to interviews and make a good personal pitch for employment ...
That change needs to reflect the moving ball of public policy in different arenas. Legislation might well be the best way of resolving any long-term problems with the interface between, for example, health and care.
Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. As you hinted, I landed the best job in the world 10 years ago: parliamentary officer to a Parliament that did not exist—for a few months, at any rate.
You have said that you will do your best to indicate any significant changes in the paperwork for the budget, and that will be extremely helpful as a starting point.However, we also highlighted one or two other issues such as the fee strategy that Derek Brownlee has mentioned and the various capital projects.
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Date answered:
22 November 2012
Chapter 5 of these guidelines covers in detail best practice on pharmacological interventions such as opioid maintenance prescribing, individual patient risk assessment, supervision and opioid detoxification.