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There was strong interest in those grants—for the £500,000 that was available, we received applications for about £7 million or £8 million-worth of work.
We tried to make clear in the guidance the full overprovision guidance that will apply when section 7 is brought into force and the guidance on the arrangements that should apply during transition.
It is disturbing that we have spent an extra £235 million, but the consultants are not working the amount of hours that was foreseen—they are still overrunning their times—and of those who responded to the survey, only 7 per cent say that there has been an improvement in patient care.
One was received late last week and circulated to the committee as paper ED1/S2/05/22/7, and the other was received on Monday and provided to members this morning.
If there were four vacancies at the start of the next session and, say, six candidates for those four vacancies, members would move to the first type of voting, which is mentioned in paragraph 7 of the proposed new rule and thereafter.
Convener's Report Item 7 is my report. I suggest that members may take advantage of the coffee and tea that is available while we go through the report.
It is a country in which, UNICEF estimates, 250 people die every day. In 1996, it was reported that 4,500 children under the age of five die each month from hunger and disease in Iraq.