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A statutory duty to offer treatment in seven days would mean that health boards would refer more people to community options and methadone programmes than to residential programmes.
We want to ensure that every school participates in the drug education programme. I cannot see any good reason why any school in Scotland should exempt itself from that programme.
Perhaps some of the people who end up in treatment programmes would not have offended in the first place if wider treatment programmes had been available.
There are actions for Government and for business. Government can assist access to skilled people. Companies must invest in developing their work force.
Climate Change To ask the Scottish Executive when the revised Scottish climate change programme will be completed. (S2O-8081) The review of the climate change programme is at an advanced stage.
The first power on which we need to make a decision is under section 5(7) of the bill. It relates to programmes of learning, and allows ministers to modify the descriptions of programmes under the two headings of "fundable further education" and "fundable higher education".
Financial Assistance for Environmental Purposes (Scotland) Order 2005 (SSI 2005/324) There is a minor drafting point on the order, but nothing substantive.