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I agree with Mary Scanlon that it is bizarre that an organisation has a target with an expiry date but, when it does not achieve it, it just gives up on it.
The information should be sufficient to identify those people (for example name, address and date of birth) and should record whether a person wants to donate organs or tissue and, if so, which organs or tissue.
That is estimated to have saved up to 400,000 jobs in Germany during the recent recession. The International Labour Organization highlights similarly impressive numbers of livelihoods saved in Japan, Turkey and the United States of America.
When doing research for a speech that I made in a debate in Parliament prior to the summer recess, I read a statement by Rob Edwards of the Sunday Herald that Scots were subsidising insurance in England, so it clearly works both ways.
I welcome my colleagues back and hope that they had a pleasant and restful recess and are all set to go. I remind everyone to switch off mobile phones and other electronic devices.