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I agree that we should have an inquiry, not so much because it proves that this committee exists as a distinct entity, but because so many local authorities have made it clear to us that local government finance is an issue.
The inclusion of percentages clarifies the accounts, which tend to have many large numbers. People understand percentage changes more easily than they do a comparison between £897 million this year with £769 million last year, for example.
This is one of the largest groups, but many of the individual amendments are technical and consequential to the two main amendments, the first of which is amendment 62.
Although a 7 per cent increase in cases might not mean many more cases in, for example, Highlands and Islands, it could mean a large number of extra cases in Glasgow, where it might have a more sizeable impact.
The point that the amendments address is important, because many patients have raised it and there is a fear that they might get heavy-handed treatment when they are participating in treatment willingly.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2007
To ask the Scottish Executive how many jobs there were in each standard industrial sector in Stirling in each of the last three years, also shown as a percentage of all jobs in Stirling.