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Evidence under oath 6.41 Under section 26(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 and Rule 12.4.2, witnesses may be required to give evidence under oath or having made a solemn 86 87 affirmation.
As Christina McKelvie said, we do that because many people who get MND die so quickly. It is not commercially viable to spend money on researching the disease because people die too quickly to get the drugs that are needed to cure it.
In terms of independent release of data, I know that one of the aims was that there should be a single website through which all official data are released—the gov.uk website.
They may be wrong, but I would be happy for Mr Gibson to sit down with me and point out where they are wrong. Mr Johnson completely misses the point that we have reached in the budget process.
It is extremely hard to get precise numbers; it is necessary to do the best you can and to hope that any errors you make cancel themselves out and do not all point in one direction.