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We do not yet know when we might be made to leave the EU—that might be on 29 March next year, at the end of 2020 or at some date that is as yet unknown. There is little clarity about funding.
That means that other options, including use of overtime and bank staff, will have been exhausted and that the only way to provide cover is through use of agency staff.
I will say, and you can take this to the bank, that if any concerns come in about the abuse of children, we will engage the professionals—the police—to investigate that.
I say to the minister that an inflation rate of even 2 per cent, which is the Bank of England’s target rate, would in effect mean a figure being worth 10 per cent less after five years because of the effect of compound interest.
In the local IJB, I have heard a request for information that is more up to date, because the process in itself can be considerably out of date in terms of data capture—sometimes by a year or 18 months.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde does not use the type of contracts which have been characterised as “zero hours”. All boards use staff banks made up of qualified staff who can be offered work on an as and when required basis to deal with peaks in demand or gaps caused by leave and sick absence.
To ask the Scottish Government, if the rest of the UK refused to share the services of the Green Investment Bank, how much it would cost to set up an equivalent body in an independent Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government, if the rest of the UK refused to enter a currency union with an independent Scotland, how much it would cost to set up a Scottish central bank. I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-21509 on 27 June 2014.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
3 February 2014
It is for the appropriate regulators and the banks to ensure that all companies that may have been mis-sold financial products are given the assistance they need and any appropriate redress.