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We have an independent board consisting of lay people, who provide the agency's strategic direction, but the agency itself is accountable to health ministers.
There are problems even when people think that they have sorted out their affairs through a joint account. A bank or a building society can, and often does, freeze the whole account when one of a couple becomes incapable.
Can the minister assure us that funding bodies that disburse Executive and lottery funding will take account of increased water charges, just as they take account of increases in heating and lighting bills?
If somebody gives a victim statement, the judge is supposed to take that into account. At the same time, if the accused pleads guilty early, the judge is also supposed to take that into account.
If emergency powers are brought in for a Scottish situation, the power for enforcement and delivery will be passed to the Scottish ministers, who will be accountable to Parliament, obviously. That is helpful.