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Admittedly, he qualified that by saying that the Executive would hold to that cost"to the best of our ability"—Official Report, 17 June 1999; Vol 1, c 523.but that ability is not great.We now hear the figure of £230 million being bandied about.
I should remind Mr Wilson that on the assisted areas map—an important parallel objective—Scotland has 49 per cent coverage compared with something like 26 per cent for England. That is a good settlement for Scotland, given the GDP figures that I have just mentioned.
I assure the patients and the communities that the member is talking about that I will deal swiftly with any such matters if there is a case to answer. During my review visit to Western Isles NHS Board, I made it absolutely clear in straightforward and robust terms that such nonsense had better stop and that the board should focus on patients' needs.
I record my thanks to you for arranging for the rain to stop before I visited a fish farm this morning.This morning, committee members visited Kames Fish Farming Ltd in Kilmelford and Cadderlie Mussels in Loch Etive and we were given a tour of the internationally important Scottish Association for Marine Science Duns...