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The benefits can be seen in our streets and communities every day. We have new schools, new technology, new information technology, new access to computers for schoolchildren, new sports facilities for schools and new hospitals.
We have completed two: the baseline report, which examined the position that SEPA was in some time ago and which contained certain significant challenges for SEPA, and the latest report, which indicates that SEPA has made good progress.
In our discussion last week there seemed to be general agreement that that was the best approach. We do not have time to take full evidence and, in any case, it would be useful to hear the reaction from those on the coalface.
We know that it can be as short as four-and-a-half years, but we also know that it can probably be as long as 40 years. The best estimate at present is that the mean incubation period for such diseases, including BSE and new variant CJD, is of the order of 10 to 15 years.
I know how deeply he feels about drug misuse and I am sure that members join me in sending him our best wishes and hopes for his swift return to the Parliament.The Conservatives welcome the new Deputy Minister for Justice.