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It has been helpful that people, including committee members and those who have submitted evidence, have worked to see how we can make the bill work in the best interests of children and young people.
As has been pointed out, there were increasing costs, particularly because new cancer drugs such as Taxol and Taxitere were coming on the market, and the clinicians were doing what they thought was best for the people of Tayside.
That will allow us to be totally satisfied that the procurement process aligns with all public sector procurement advice. Will that ensure best value? It will indeed. We operate under the principle of best value and BAA has accepted that it should do so too.
One education official was quoted in the Southern Reporter on 26 July as saying that the committee had been unsuccessfully "gambling with staff slippage".
We must think differently about what constitutes a society in which life sciences can prosper in the future.Scotland has much to offer to the debate. It could accommodate the best civil dialogue on the ethics of the new science.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
7 November 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what financial help is available to those who wish to travel a long distance to visit relatives in hospitals and what steps it is taking to publicise this financial help among patients.