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However, 19 per cent of the women whom we have supported moved through Scotland and—there is no subtle way of putting this—no one seemed to notice.It is really important to skill up front-line workers such as UKBA staff, local police officers, national health service providers and other people who are bound to come into contact with vulnerable people in the...
Bowel disease is to the fore this week, with the inflammatory bowel disease lobby exhibiting in Parliament, so there is a potential tie-in there as well. I wonder whether we should contact a couple of institutions to get an expert opinion before we close the petition.
I absolutely agree with what Bill Butler has just said. I have had some contact from the pharmaceutical industry via its representative body, the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.
The issue of off-grid supplies has been discussed in the Cabinet sub-committee on Scottish Government resilience. Contact is being established with the suppliers to determine the extent of the problem.
Prior to that, officials met formally with industry representatives on 19 August, 16 July and 23 June. In addition, I am in frequent contact with industry representatives, as are my officials, on this important issue.
I just wanted to express that view before we send the petition on for further consideration by the Government. We will contact the Government on those issues.
For instance, we regularly meet European commissioners and respond to their consultations, we attend meetings of the European Council, and we brief MEPs. We also remain in regular contact with our Whitehall counterparts to promote Scottish interests in the establishment of the United Kingdom's position.
Will the cabinet secretary accept that the experience of too many people in remote and rural areas such as my Orkney constituency is that when they contact NHS 24 they face not only the problem of having to deal with cumbersome questioning and requests for information that has already been given—which, no doubt, urban callers also experience—but the additio...
We have received a letter from the Law Society of Scotland, which is one of the organisations that we might contact as part of our consideration. I will not pre-empt the discussion by talking about what the letter says.