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A proportion of round about 5 or 6 per cent is reasonable, given winter pressures, summer holidays and all the other reasons why we would want bank nursing, but 14 per cent is far too high.
Councillor O’Neill, you talked about long-term planning; had the Brexit vote gone the other way—had there been a vote to remain—would local authorities, in all honesty, be planning now for spends in 2021 and 2022? Would they be doing the work on that?
Those revisions bring the code up to date and strengthen it in four key areas, First, the changes help home owners to understand what to expect and whether the property factor has met its obligations.
I wonder how many future intakes of ScotGEM are expected. Will the course have an end date? The course will continue. There is an annual intake of around 55 students.
If we do not reform our defamation law in line with the law in England and Wales, there is a danger that our case law will not be up to date—we will have old Reynolds defences, while English law is developing more robustly.
We would like to see a commitment to introduce such legislation at a future date. Professor Gemmell commented that the legislation, policy and governance mechanisms create a system, or a framework, that allows high environmental outcomes to be achieved.
I just want to ask for a comprehensive and up-to-date briefing on the self-change programme giving the throughput of numbers, the number of people who are graduating, the waiting list and the challenges that face the programme.