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It has been said that, in Scotland, we are more likely to discuss our debts and our bank balances than infertility. Infertile people naturally do not like to talk about their problem, not even to close family in many cases.
I used to deal with the situation by saying in my opinion that I wrote to the practitioner on such-and-such a date and required sight of their client file, which was provided willingly on such-and-such a date and that it appeared to be a full record of the business.
I am not suggesting that we should not examine the bill, but I think that we could do that at a later date. I do not think that we are entitled to take up that point particularly strongly.
This is not a terribly scientific measure, but the research on the costs of youth crime that was conducted in, I think, 1998—I cannot remember the exact date—came up with a figure of around £2,100 per crime.