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I have two points: one on environmental impacts and the other on paper. Through the remade Scotland programme, which the Government funds, we did some work with the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities on the drop in prices since August.
I am told that this subject was considered at the committee's away day and that the committee agreed as part of its work programme to commission the Scottish Parliament information centre to undertake an exercise mapping the bodies—that information appears as annex A to the paper by the clerk.
Malcolm Chisholm rightly praised the patient safety programme. Maybe he is right that we should sing about that from the rooftops more often, but international recognition of the programme is pretty extensive.
In some instances we have discussed our work programme in public, but we have sufficiently wide options to consider this year—given the lack of legislation—that it would be reasonable to discuss them in private before we adopt and publish the work programme.
The Scottish Government has extended the membership of the DRS Programme Board so as to ensure that local councils are appropriately represented in the next phase of the programme.
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Date answered:
21 January 2010
Public Service Reform Strategy
"Ensuring high quality and sustainable public services" is one of the four priorities described in the Scottish Government's Programme for Government 2025 to 2026. The programme identified that “Much of the pressure in our health system stems from conditions which are preventable earlie...