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For the 2006-07 budget, substantial new resources are coming on stream for closing the opportunity gap, including our new £15 million-a-year closing the opportunity gap fund.
The Executive has initiated this debate to give the Parliament an early opportunity to discuss our continued commitment to the fire service in Scotland following the publication of our latest consultation paper on proposed new legislation.
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.