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To ask the Scottish Executive to provide a breakdown of the premature deaths in Scotland in each of the last five years to date related to each of tobacco, alcohol, cannabis, amphetamines, heroin, ecstasy and cocaine.
The Health Board does not believe the existing disposition of adult acute services and emergency care throughout Glasgow is a sustainable basis for the future and the HIP sets out a range of service changes to modernise and strengthen emergency services that it will be seeking to discuss with various parties. To date, no decisions have been taken.
That is why I believe firmly that the Scottish Executive needs to have the courage to tackle the vested interests that are holding us back and to boldly go in a direction where to date it has feared to tread.In tackling some of the specifics of the NEET problem, we need to consider several things.
I welcome the bill and the Executive's commitment to bringing additional support systems up to date. The minister will be aware that many parents of children with support needs face a daily battle to ensure that their children have appropriate educational support.
The children's hearings system is good at dealing with such situations, but it has not to date had the resources to deal with that situation.Our project has researched what works: what works in situations such as the one that I described is an intensive programme of support.
The volume of complaints eventually led to a helpline being installed, but it was deemed to be worse than useless, as the information was out of date, inadequate and inappropriate.Further expressions of public outrage led to Thurso community council inviting the trust to an open meeting during the election campaign in April.
Unfortunately, we do not have a crystal ball any more than you do. Given that a changeover date has not yet been set, it is clear that the time frames that confront digital television are elastic.
The order that we are discussing provides some resources for McCrone, but some are being held back for distribution at a later date. I am conscious that, in the past few days, figures have emerged from one council in particular, which is suggesting an alternative means of distributing those resources.