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Under paragraph 7 of the schedule to the members' interests order, where a member has made a visit outside the United Kingdom, there are exceptions to the requirement on the member to register the visit.
A completely separate point relates to the delay in payment verification. During our Glasgow visit, we questioned the Greater Glasgow Primary Care NHS Trust and found that there was an issue to do with visits to GP practices—only two visits had been carried out.
It is a matter that affects us all as workers and, given Scotland's comparatively poor record, it is one that we must continue to address in the chamber.
If we do not look at what other people are doing, we clearly do not know how to benchmark that, so I suggest that we build in a reference to some international comparators and benchmarking as part of the research.
Secondly, the committee should write to the Scottish Executive to request that it consider commissioning a similar comparative study to the one that was done in England and Wales.