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A note will be ready for members on their return from what I hope will be a good holiday. Some members look pretty tired.As we are the committee that never sleeps, I will whet members' appetite for the coming term.
I thank Margaret Smith for her contribution.Independence Day Public Holiday (PE1029) Independence Day Public Holiday (PE1029) Our next petition is PE1029 from John Black, on behalf of the Scottish Jacobite Party.
The inability to replace members of the nursing team with permanent staff has meant that the health care manager has been forced to rely on agency and bank nurses to make up the shortfall in numbers."
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
9 September 2005
Margaret Beckett, Ben Bradshawand Jim Knight attended the Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels on the18 July 2005. As I was on holiday I did not attend.The UK Presidency presented itswork programme for the next six months.
Would you argue against moving to a fixed trial date system? Without the 30-day period that is provided for in the bill, which is when the preliminary hearing would take place and there would be an opportunity to fix a trial date, how would the system work?
I implore the Deputy Minister for Justice to give us a starting date for those renovations—and let that date be soon.Barlinnie prison was built in the reign of Queen Victoria.