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In fact, even when we got to the end of the consultation period, we encouraged people to respond and to give their views so that we had as wide a spectrum of views as possible, and we received a number of other responses after the closure date. Are you happy with the detail of the responses that you received?
Where specialist centres are required, they will have the most modern up-to-date equipment and the right staffing levels to ensure that they deliver for patients.
Will the minister give us an absolute assurance that his statement to the Health Committee earlier this week will not lead to any postponement of the target date of 2009 for the opening of that new hospital, which the people of the Forth valley need at the earliest opportunity?
The clerks received a holding response from the Executive, which was dated 6 May, in which officials stated that they hoped to respond during May, if possible.
In fact, the briefing material that members have received from the Communities Committee is now out of date. I think that, apart from two applications, all the 14 applications in Fife, which Fife Council was holding back on, have now been approved.
I am also concerned about the fact that Mr Harvey's letter, which is dated 12 September, quotes an incident about which he read in the Scottish Daily Express on 11 September.
If members reflect on the fact that some of the legislation that we were consolidating dates back as far as 1607—I refer to the Theft Act 1607—they will understand why a consolidation bill was necessary and, indeed, desirable.
We would need to provide the CLG with a paper before that date, so we must either decide now or, as the convener said, by correspondence in the next few days.