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The situation is really serious. The latest statistics that I have seen for the whole of Scotland show that the amount of alcohol that is sold in Scotland is enough for every adult to consume 20 units a week, every week.
To address delays in planned access to specialist child and adolescent mental health services, we have a new waiting time target that means that, by March 2013, no one will wait longer than 26 weeks from referral to treatment.
That is why I am fairly confident that we have good coronary care services in every part of Scotland. The latest audits show substantial increases in the number of people with heart disease who are getting access to cardiac rehabilitation, which I think is at the core of the question.
First, we will come to the Public Audit Committee on 26 May with an update of the forward programme of performance audit studies that we intend to undertake over the next couple of years.
There has been a lot of delay by the Scottish Government, which has meant that the new PIP has not yet been fully taken over by the agency, which is really disappointing.
I do not wish to be presumptuous, but I do not think that the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee should set out to prevent new groups being set up simply because we already have more than 100 CPGs.