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However, due to Scottish Government restrictions, she was not able to get an appointment for that surgery until April 2022, so she continues to be in a lot of pain.
We need more expertise in cybercrime and, increasingly, fraud, where we need to work with partners such as banks, HM Revenue and Customs, and other agencies that form the greater picture of our ability to tackle that type of crime.
One of the many bad aspects of the collapse of the two Scottish banks in 2008 was that, effectively, we lost a large part of the residual headquarters, which had become Scotland’s two largest businesses.
That is the technical discussion to have with the Bank of England. Sir John Gieve, who is a former deputy governor of the Bank of England, has caught my eye, so I will bring him in.
I place on record my entry in the register of members’ interests, which says that I hold a bank nurse contract with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and that I am a registered mental health nurse.We move to questions from Elena Whitham.
Those include parent-teacher associations, parent councils, after-school clubs, extracurricular groups and uniform banks. It would be untrue to say that local groups cannot register as charities.
In many instances, the cost of land is a real prohibitor of social landlords building more housing, and the land banking of areas of our cities is a problem.
We need better staffing so that there is more flexibility, and that ties into the situation with locum and bank workers. Skilled staff are going for those ways of working, because they get to choose their own shifts and there is not enough flexibility in what the NHS offers them.
Our members say things such as, “I can afford to work here because my partner works for a bank.” That is a challenge, because that does not help with the next generation coming in.