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The 1999 Accounts Commission report "Supporting prescribing in general practice" pointed to a range of improvements in prescribing that could benefit patients and generate savings of around £26 million, which is a substantial amount of money.
(c) As Audit Scotland reported in its evidence to the Audit Committee on 6 January 2004 (Official Report, col. 266), the SPCB is a young and evolving organisation.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
28 March 2001
Request from Ministers to Inland Revenue and Customs officials to take a very sympathetic approach to businesses experiencing financial problems as a result of the outbreak.
It appears on no one's radar as one of the key issues on which we should be spending committee time, officials' time or parliamentary time.Without that national view, we are in danger of taking something that—as I have said before—started off as no more than a stunt by a particular newspaper to increase its circulation and elevating to national policy a mat...
Committee members will see in the bullet points on page 2 of the paper suggestions that have been picked up from the Official Report and members' suggestions over time.
After a statement on the agreement, Mike Russell said:"Would it not be better to reduce bureaucracy … on schools and young people of assessment, targeting and the publication of league tables?"—Official Report, 14 February 2001; Vol 10, c 1201.