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He suggested that a benefit of the proposed new policy is that it would weed out some applications and ensure that new applications from the industry are substantive.
There has been a steady year-on-year increase since before the millennium, and the latest in-year collection rate is now 93.3 per cent, which is up from 92.7 per cent last year.
The Scottish Executive looks at the discounts that pharmacists get on those medicines and claws them back. For example, we clawed back £26 million in relation to generics last year; that money went back into the NHS.
Amendment 3 will also allow ministers to extend the scope of the licensing scheme should new forms of activity arise that might properly justify a requirement for a knife dealer's licence.
We hope that having an extra two judges will eventually reduce our dependence on temporary judges. Will the appointment of the two new judges be done through the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland?