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Substantial sums of public money were being handed over to new boards for the first time. Those boards comprised people who were all entirely new to the task.
Are you confident that the process of reform that you have undertaken took on board the concerns of the organisations that are part of the new, more integrated structure? Yes.
If anyone seriously questions the wisdom of that approach, they need only look at New York. In the 1980s and 1990s, New York had an appalling record on crime and, interestingly, community policing had withered away.
Primarily, the trials are about how the crops perform commercially—such trials are conducted for any new crop, whether it is GM or not. It takes between 12 and 15 years to bring a new variety of potato to the market.
As I do not have my glasses on, I will have to squint at your submission, but you say:"Latest data indicates that 31.5 of every 100,000 population waited over six months in Scotland, compared to 83 in England."
I would be wary about rushing into the debate about safety.We know nothing about new chemicals that are being manufactured and are entering the market.