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We can take those points up.Does Andrew Page wish to add any final comments on how he would like us to take the petition forward? We will follow it up with some of the appropriate bodies.
She replied in a letter dated 15 November 2008:"I was sorry to learn of Mr McNeill's long term problems following the procedure carried out on his hand in 1942 and appreciate that this will have caused him much distress over the years.I note that the procedure was carried out some six years before the NHS was established."
My understanding—I am a tiro member of the committee and ask for the convener's advice on the matter—is that we can press a general case on the national transport policy that the Scottish Government follows through Transport Scotland but we should not consider requests in respect of particular putative projects, however serious and legitimate they are.
The rule provides for the enhancement of a partner's pension for three months, following the death of a participating member or pensioner, to the level of income that the member was receiving at that time.
Some of the issues that the committee is raising will be monitored in the "Brussels Bulletin", which is disseminated to subject committees and stakeholders more broadly. Through that, we can certainly follow up the specific issues that committee members have raised and highlight them to the subject committees.
On the publication of statistics—a matter about which ministers get very exercised, as I and others remember—international best practice is that statistics should be published and given right out there to the world and that the advance warning to ministers should be as little as three hours. Do you plan to follow international best practice on publication?
In our correspondence with organisations, we should stress that the programmes—the ones that will use the capital that has already been allocated—should be accelerated. If we have to wait until 2017 or 2020, it will seem as if things will never happen.
It would be quite achievable, and a good vision for Scotland, to have no wood being wasted or going into landfill. By 2015 or 2020, it should be possible to get there.