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When Labour policy documents published this summer first raised the prospect of a legal entitlement on waiting times, ministers had still not agreed on the timing of legislation and the enforcement pearl jewelry mechanism.
The Queen’s Speech on November 18, setting out the Government’s legislative programme for the final months before the election, will promise that the measure for England and Wales will be in place within months.
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Patients who do not get the treatment that they need from the NHS within 18 weeks are to be given the legal right to free private care.
The Cabinet agreed this week that the freshwater pearl legislation, placing maximum waiting times on the statute book for the first time, should be rushed through Parliament before the next election.
Cancer patients, in particular, will receive funding for private treatment if they have not seen an NHS specialist within two weeks of GP referral.
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Sir, In 1972 Leicestershire County Council decided to establish a visitor centre at Bosworth Field (report, Oct 29). The late Dr Danny Williams (lecturer in medieval history, University of Leicester) was pearl jewelry invited to be the historical adviser for this project.
This was no easy task. Dr R. H. Evans described it as requiring “advice on a variety of topics ranging not only from details of costume, arms, armour and equipment but to fundamental and controversial issues about the very siting of the battle, the troop dispositions and the course of the fighting”. Williams devoted a great deal of time to providing scholarly and carefully argued answers to these questions. The battlefield site and the interpretative centre are ...
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Sir, The power for local authorities to conduct financial investigations has been with us for some time (“Councils get Al Capone power to seize assets over minor offences,” Oct 28) and there are many examples where their investigators have assisted in dealing with organised criminal activity that pearl jewelry has made huge (and unlawful) financial benefit.
Trading Standards deals with many cases of counterfeiting and in some cases there are serious public health issues that the public rightly expects it to address. Any confiscation or forfeiture of assets is always subject to scrutiny by the courts. This requirement will also apply to any other body in the future, providing an important safeguard to ensure that the powers are used appropriately.
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Sir, The emerging details of Sir Christopher Kelly’s review of MPs’ allowances, the continuing work of Sir Thomas inflatable Legg’s investigation, and the “leaked” views of the Senior Salaries Review Body on allowances for peers raise more than an issue of probity.
After constitutional change which has devolved decision making to Scotland, Wales and, increasingly to Northern Ireland, England is becoming even more London-
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