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All those things are under review. The top management team recognises that it has a responsibility to adjust the shape of the organisation in response to pressures from outside.
Instead, they could have said, "We think that the Executive should spend more money on A, B and C, either by paying for it through spending less money on X, Y and Z or by putting A, B and C at the top of the list when the Executive has more money."
Offenders who are receiving prescribed drugs are unlikely to meet those criteria other than where topping up of the prescribed medication with illicit drugs is taking place.
Sam Galbraith was asked when and what he knew. If the people at the top of the SQA structure, if we can believe them—and I do—did not know what was happening, and considering the chain of command or line management right through to the top, my anger and fury at the situation is understandable.
Secondly, at national level, we produce the costs book on the "Scotland's health on the web" website, which sets out in exhausting detail what it has cost to provide services.
They need to know that if they are going to travel somewhere to use a service or buy something, they can access it. That is very important from their perspective.