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Most of the committee conveners have put their own names down for the visit, but I did not do that. Maybe we should check whether Kenny has his press release ready for it yet.
The conveners group appears to be suggesting that the committee does not require to have a representative on the visit. I think, convener, that you can put a good case for our sending a representative.
NHS Quality Improvement Scotland will be invited to conduct a second series of review visits. These visits will focus on those criteria that were not met at the original visits.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
14 November 2003
To ask the Scottish Executive on what occasions since 1999 ministers have accompanied Scottish firms on visits overseas to promote export marketing and sales, broken down by minister and country visited.
The sentence where you talk about "less than 0.1% of the Scottish Executive's entire budget"contains a degree of frustration. May we have comparative figures with, say, the Republic of Ireland?
There is not a huge difference of opinion between the Auditor General and me, but I question the value for money that we receive for a significant number of the visits to GPs. When one compares the cost of those visits with the errors that are identified, one sees that they ma...