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However, we must take a hard look at where this latest episode takes us. Given that the committee issued a report on the funding of Scottish Opera, it is unfortunate that something was done without any reference to or explanation for the committee.
You are saying that, under the Executive's proposal, people will have no opportunity to make complaints to the new representative body. I am not going to tell the new committee exactly what it can do.
I note from Malcolm Chisholm's response of 26 January to a question from Elaine Smith that the Executive will have spent around £954,000 over five years on the promotion of breastfeeding—it proposes to spend £230,000 this year.
Talks on a new pay system for all non-medical national health service staff throughout the United Kingdom have also been concluded and the Executive is fully involved in UK talks on a new general medical service contract for general practitioners.
Will he confirm to the chamber that he will not accept any new funding formula for GPs under the proposed new contracts that will mean that they will receive less funding instead of the expected increase?
It is important that we tie that up. We need the new order for the new Parliament. The timetable needs to be adjusted to take account of that—if the rest of the committee agrees.