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I understand the reticence to put precise figures on any matter if that could lead to an increase in costs, but some of the answers that you have given are rather general.
In just one day in the NHS in Scotland more than 60,000 people will visit their general practitioner; community nurses will make more than 12,000 visits; 2,500 operations will be performed; and more than 24,000 out-patients will be seen.
Those are not my words, but the words of the Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, Allan Wilson, writing in the Sunday Herald on 26 December. I could not agree more.
We put in a lot of effort, not only to monitor the types of people who lodge petitions but to get out of Edinburgh and visit communities throughout Scotland, as we are doing today.
The Queensway centre is more like what we might call the usual kind of leisure centre that I rarely visit, where one has to do physical activities such as gymnastics, dancing and so on.
Surely we could receive a written response from Sylvia Jackson. If every committee asked her to visit, she would be busy. We will ask the question in writing, because it is straightforward.