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To ask the Scottish Executive whether the £10 per day car parking charge in operation at Edinburgh’s new Royal Infirmary was waived for Gordon Brown MP during his recent visit for the birth of his child.
Will the issue go to the Minister for Health and Community Care? How much time do we have to get answers? We have one more meeting before Christmas, but it will be at least January before we get any answers back.
We have consistently been unable to get good-quality information that would help us to take a view on whether the outcomes are being delivered at the grass roots.
The omission may be an accident, or deliberate for some reason, but we can ask for an explanation—and no doubt we will get one.That brings us to the end of the agenda, so I close the meeting.
I understand that the society will submit further proposals over the summer. I hope that they will get a fair hearing and that there will be co-operation in considering those matters.
To put that into context, the overall funding in the United Kingdom that will be available to the new distributor for the year 2004-05 will be about £660 million, which means that Scotland will get about £76 million.