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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.
Above all, farmers might feel that they form a new bureaucracy, and that they are a new form of contract that leaves them very little bargaining power, imposes duties upon them and gives them very few rights.
Now that the committee has asked questions, we know at least a bit more about what the regulations are intended to do.The committee's next meeting is on 26 April, when we will hear oral evidence for our inquiry into the Scottish Criminal Record Office and the Scottish fingerprint service.
This raises a question that we have considered once before: must the board be stood down before a new board can be elected, or can a statutory instrument be used to make the change in one fell swoop?
The problem is that, if we do not have an equivalent for MSPs, the new provisions will be seen as a dilution.Perhaps in time people might consider that the conclusions at which we are arriving are much more measured than the approach that was taken in the Ethical Standards in Public Life etc (Scotland) Act 2000.