To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the evidence to the Audit Committee on 25 January 2005 by the Head of the Health Department and Chief Executive of the NHS in Scotland, what the cost of backdating the General Medical Services contract will be in each NHS board area. There are no elements of the new General Medical Service (GMS) contract which require to be backdated.Specific parts of the new GMS contract, such as quality preparation and some Directed Enhanced Services were implemented from 1 April 2003.