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As that did not take into account the cost of the minor ailments programme, how can the cabinet secretary say that it will cost only £12 million to abolish prescription charges four years from now?
You will appreciate that the bill is very much about setting a framework. It foreshadows programmes and policies that will be the delivery mechanisms—when we address those we will get into the detail of exactly how we move towards the targets.
The whole process would collapse under the weight of that.We must be mindful of the local assessors, whose role is to assist the commission in the exercise of its functions.
Although some argue that people do not necessarily drink their off-sales purchases over a short space of time, the harm statistics that we are all familiar with at least suggest that such an assumption might not be correct.The quantity discount ban for on-sales of alcohol will be evaluated as part of a comprehensive programme to evaluate our alcohol strateg...
That is a little misleading. It basically focuses on employees only. Some things have been going on in the primary sector, such as farmers including wives as formal employees in that industry, which tends to make the sector look larger than it is.
Secondly, given the threat of a problem with an employer, there is a greater onus on employees to comply with the programme—there is an alternative element of compulsion.