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Why was the campaign to give advice over the holiday period so late appearing? It appeared on 29 December, when we were all wished a merry Christmas, and so inaccurate was it that it omitted to mention pharmacists.
Can you give the Parliament an assurance that the appropriate trade union has been consulted on the issue of staff having to work on a public holiday? Applause. I can answer that. It was always assumed—and it was agreed a couple of weeks ago—that those staff would come in on 4 January to deal with the matter.
In fact, it could be very disruptive if people found, after entering a life sentence for which a tariff had been set and when a lot of the treatment had been geared to the date of possible release, everything got upset.
During the second half of the 1980s and the 1990s, entrepreneurial behaviour in two or three key sectors of the Royal Bank of Scotland made a major difference.
No one wants to cause alarm or panic, but we should not be complacent about the dangers to human health. To date, variant CJD has caused more than 100 deaths in Scotland and people are continuing to develop the disease.