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That was why health promotion has been an important part of the Liberal Democrats' commitments in government—£26 million a year will go into the health promotion fund.
Is the minister aware that the action on elder abuse helpline, which has revealed that 26 per cent of perpetrators are paid workers, is underused in Scotland and requires additional funding to publicise its service?
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.
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-13372 by Tavish Scott on 26 January 2005, what the suicide rate was in (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by local authority area.
We must roll things out across the country and continue our investigations, so I want to focus on the committee's visits programme.As part of its evidence-gathering activities for the inquiry, the committee plans to carry out a programme of visits throughout the country.
Those are the areas that some of our questions will address. We will visit Highland NHS Board next week to hear about the issues that face a more rural board.
I am a member of Unison and the Educational Institute of Scotland.I will report to the committee, as none of the other members who were on the visit is here. We visited the Dundee city partnership and Scottish Enterprise Fife on 5 November.