Supt Alan Smailes, who chairs the Raptor Persecution Priority Delivery Group, said the figures showed efforts to eradicate the issue were having an effect.

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Conservative Finance Spokesperson Paul Davies AM welcomed the spend on broadband as he called for its delivery to be a priority.

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"Safety of care delivery remains the top priority to maintain but unfortunately the rising numbers of patients, especially out of hours, continues to be a major challenge, " he added.

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To that end, the United States Citizen and Immigration Service has a high priority goal of moving 40 percent of its service delivery online by 2011.

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Thus, effective January 1, 2005, and insofar as FedEx is concerned, the list of designated private delivery services was as follows: FedEx Priority Overnight, FedEx Standard Overnight, FedEx 2 Day, FedEx International Priority, and FedEx International First.

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Ms Robison also said that a national delivery plan on how to use the funding found that cancer in children was a top priority.

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"Due to the scale of the financial challenge facing the council next year and beyond means that we must continue to take a proactive approach to the delivery of efficiency savings to allow us to balance the budget and protect services in key priority areas, " he said.

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That is why the third priority is to become more selective about the purpose of such help, and tougher on the manner of its delivery.

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