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I have a question before the minister moves on from the exchange upgrades, which I very much welcome. I mentioned that no date has been given for the work on the exchanges at Fern and Menmuir.
Was there any consultation, or did the board just take a decision and tell you what was going to happen from a particular date? General practitioners were denied access to meetings of the health visiting review board.
I wonder whether that problem is exacerbated by the use of unrealistic sell-by and use-by dates on many food products. Raspberries, to which Christine Grahame referred, often have a two-day use-by date on them, which people take seriously.
Can the cabinet secretary provide members with the details of how the financial memorandum has been taken forward and the expenditure that has been committed to date and will be committed in the future?
Maybe that is how Labour thinks that people will spend their way out of recession, but perhaps the option of holidaying at home will become more attractive and economically beneficial to Scotland.
Colleagues may be aware of the story that came out last week, when Parliament was in recess, about a 13-year-old boy from Wales who went into a sunbed salon in his home town.
If the convener does not mind, I will not tie myself to a date. Suffice it to say that the matter will be a key priority for Stewart Maxwell and me in the summer, so that we can have clarity soon after the recess.
Given that two thirds of planting is done by private owners, is it not the case that investment has been reduced because of the crunch and the recession? I could be wrong, but my understanding is that it is less to do with the recession and more to do with what we might call behavioural attitudes of farmers, who do n...