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However, although their data categories do include ill health as a reason for leaving, there may be difficulties with the data as individuals may choose not to record the reasons for their departure from the service.
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Date answered:
14 October 1999
However, although their data categories do include ill health as a reason for leaving, there may be difficulties with the data as individuals may choose not to record the reasons for their departure from the service.
You said that the council had no proposals to extend its parking charges. Of course, councils may change—or councils may stay the same but change their intentions.
Given the nature of the subject matter, being absolutely precise may be difficult—and there will always be the difficult case—but the current wording is simply too wide.
You were saying that there could be a national standards commission, which would lay down the framework of principles for the system. Beneath that framework, councils may have their own code; MSPs may have their own code; LECs may have their own code.