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Early in our work, a member of the working party, Vikram Lall, helped us to consider councillor remuneration as a total package, rather than as a case of cash in hand or received through a bank's automated clearing system on a Friday morning.
I do not want to delay at all. My suggestion was that the first date would be 26 April, and that we would have other dates after that, whether on a Wednesday or on a Monday or Tuesday.
We considered an excellent report on prescribing and an Accounts Commission report into bank and agency nursing. If both those reports were followed through, the health service would make considerable savings and possibly provide a better service.We have been contacted by the Haemophilia Society, which is concerned about the Executive's report into haemophi...
In January 1998, Standard Life was innovative when it opened Standard Life Bank, which has been a major success story, surpassing all expectations and now employing 1,200 people.
Presiding Officer, I do not know whether you are a man of means—whether you have a few pounds in your sporran or a few million in the bank. If you had £10 million to spare, your eyes might have been drawn to the Cuillin mountains on the Isle of Skye in my constituency.
On Tuesday evening, I attended a very good dinner of Scots beef at Glasgow city chambers, in order to hear Mr Eddie George, the governor of the Bank of England, deliver a speech on the economy.
Some may think that that is unfair, but it will be understood and would be difficult to change at a later date. I was not aware of that but I accept that it is the case.