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I will tell members what the SNP could not buy. It could not buy a new Victoria hospital or Stobhill hospital in Glasgow and it could not build the infrastructure that we have planned for Scotland.
I cannot remember the case, but one member was inadvertently in breach of the members' interests order for a period of months while they were selling their house and buying a new one. We should not over-complicate things.
We provide a safe service for patients. The shortfall concerns the latest developments. You alluded to that when you referred to intensively modulated radiotherapy.
Direct representations have not been made to me, but we will publish the results of the research that I mentioned in, I believe, August this year—at the latest, they will be published in the autumn.
We believe that it is not satisfactory to call a service excellent and to charge considerably more for it, while offering a lesser standard of inspection.Inspectors must be familiar with the resources that they visit. To be absolutely frank, when I visit a brand new resource that I have not seen before, it takes two or three visits before I get under the surface.
I do not accept Christine Grahame's comment about the brand new schools that I have visited. I have visited some of them, but over the past two or three weeks I have also visited some of our old schools and marvelled at the quality of e...