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However, given the pressures on the legislative programme, it would be fair to say that it may be some time before we can expect new legislation to replace the Civil Defence Act 1948.
Existing employment contracts are existing employment contracts. Are we suggesting that any new employment contracts should contain a requirement for staff to comply with the code?
We are pleased about that. You are starting to hit these new regulations and will have a lot of new problems, which larger firms find it easier to cope with.
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.
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.