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To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to support research into the discovery of new antibiotics, non-antibiotic solutions and new combinations of medicines.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
29 November 2022
On balance, it is clear that there are significant benefits to locating the functions in the new Qualifications Body, as an NDPB, providing a greater degree of independence than within the new national agency.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
22 September 2022
In 10 years—it will be our anniversary on 26 November—people have not been able to suggest that any of our work has been other than based on the very best science.
What a lot of nonsense there is in the framing of that question.The last thing that Johann Lamont wants to talk about is major jobs announcements or the fact that the latest employment figures show that Scotland has higher employment and lower unemployment than anywhere else in these islands.
We made an announcement yesterday about the latest round of open project funding and there are awards of nearly £1 million in 44 individual grants, the majority of which are to individual artists.
I think it could be going more quickly, which will not be news to the committee—I would not have introduced a new code of practice if that were not the case.
Remember that the data scan of 400,000 is the biggest data scan that the Scottish Government has received in connection with paying new Government benefits. It is a very significant execution of a new benefit.