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I have to say that I am not surprised that any bureaucratic institution that is chuntering towards dissolution or holidays suddenly finds that it has a chunk of work to get through.
First, the reason that the Executive advanced for the breach of the 21-day rule was, in this case, honest, if novel: the officials concerned were on holiday. That is not a good enough reason, so we will mention it in passing.
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Date answered:
23 September 2002
For the purpose of this parliamentary question, recruits are defined as those individuals who are new to NHSScotland, those who rejoined NHSScotland, and those who were previously working as bank staff but who have obtained substantive posts,4.
We are competing against destinations such as Florida and the Gambia, where you can spend a week for almost the same price as going to Europe.A raft of issues in the strategy, such as niche marketing and activity holidays, are targeted at ensuring that Scots take holidays in Scotland.
The deadline says, "If you submit your bill after this date, you're dead." It does not say, "If you submit your bill before this date, you're guaranteed to get it through."
There is a concern that, on the day that warrant sales are abolished, creditors will look for other methods of enforcement. The power of the banks especially concerns me. In cases where people have bank accounts, banks are first in the queue to recover debt; and if a bank account is frozen, there is no upper limit on what the bank can take.