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Preliminary evaluation results look good with respect to hearing aid use and benefit compared with analogue aids. The difference that is made to people's lives cannot be overstated.
The procedures that we will follow today are similar to those followed at stage 2 of a public bill, except that only members of the committee can lodge amendments to a private bill and participate in the meeting.
That comes on top of a 13 per cent increase in the number of administrators in the previous three years, compared with a 0.8 per cent rise in the number of GPs and a 3.5 per cent rise in the number of nurses and midwives.
I want to mention yesterday's crime statistics, particularly the shocking increase in drugs crime, which we can compare with the bland commitment to expand the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency.