To ask the Scottish Executive whether the reference laboratories working group sought any advice on campylobacter typing from experts in this subject, inside or outside Scotland, prior to the National Services Division of the Common Services Agency of the Scottish Health Service advising the director of reference services in Aberdeen that, if a more discriminatory typing scheme for campylobacter is developed in future and found to be of proven value, the reference laboratories working group would consider, at that stage, inviting tenders for the service and, if so, what advice was received.