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There were some unfortunate events in Boston involving tea, and 1776 was a date that George III never forgot or, some might say, ever got over, so who knows which states may queue up to join us in the future?
Although I do not underestimate the difficulty of gathering evidence and establishing proof in cases that date from before September 1964, that date seems arbitrary.
Very few employers reach it, whether they be Government departments or other employers. If, to date, we have failed completely to convince employers to do that, how will we convince them to go further and to employ people at home?
We have discovered that, for some reason that is difficult to work out, when a bingo club closes, up to half of its customers do not adjourn to the nearest bingo club. We are doing an up-to-date survey on that to see whether our old evidence still holds good.
As with all aspects of life, the internet now plays its part: a patient can check the doctor's diagnosis and is presented with a bank of knowledge. Patients in the 1940s did not have that tool.
Paragraph 87 highlights the lack of any progress on telehealth systems to date: “The approach adopted by Government to encourage health boards in the use of telehealth systems, to date, has been largely unsuccessful.
The building has lain abandoned for the past six years and was repossessed by the bank after its American owners failed to develop it or even keep it wind and watertight.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 November 2000
To ask the Scottish Executive what consideration it is giving to harmonising Scottish school holidays. Following representations received about different dates set in different areas, officials wrote to authorities in February to ask how holidays were currently co-ordinated b...