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There is a serious problem with disparities in salary. There may be no simple answer and it may take some time to achieve a solution—that must be a long-term rather than short-term goal—but we should not put the issue to one side as if it was unimportant.
All that I can say is that my understanding is that, for the most part, the endowments that have been granted post 1948 and held by the health boards may be spent. The capital may be spent.
Scottish ParliamentSocial Justice CommitteeWednesday 1 May 2002(Morning) Scottish ParliamentSocial Justice CommitteeWednesday 1 May 2002(Morning) The Convener opened the meeting at 09:46 I welcome everybody to this meeting of the Social Justice Committee and I wish you all a happy May day.
I recently asked for some statistics from my council. Between January and May 1999, the council received 166 MPs' letters but, between January and May 2001, we received 102 queries through the chief executive alone.
We will have to do something about our sewage problem. What we are discussing today may or may not point the way forward, but there are huge concerns about the impact that the pollutants in the soil and in the water can have on communities.