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I respect clinicians' advice in clinical areas, but we need to challenge them to work differently in many respects. Working on different sites—this might apply to consultants or to junior doctors—is an important part of the way forward.
We should bear in mind the number of people who are involved—social workers and addiction counsellors as well as the usual court officials. Such situations involve a cast of thousands.
The minister subsequently failed to tell us until I found out a week later that there had been a GM harvest from the same sites in 1999. Will we still use MAFF, which farmers do not trust?
However, the new build on brownfield sites, particularly across the Lothians, raises a real issue with public health because there is currently no law in this country to protect the public from demolitions that involve asbestos pollutants.
Irrespective of the current national planning guidance, is it not the case that an individual local authority could impose a 400m minimum avoidance distance on any application to site the pylons and their lines through its area?
We also found that some planned features of the systems that might have increased patronage, such as park-and-ride sites, have not been built, although they had been planned for.
I will be honest—the roadworks probably fall into a grey area. They are not part of the site, we do not own them and we probably would not have undertaken them had they not been in that area.