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Publication of the advice is required to give the guidance that many members seek. The advice will not be published, because I take responsibility for decisions, whatever advice officials give me.
If members agree, information sessions can be arranged for after the Easter recess.If members agree the remits as described in the paper, I suggest that we set up reporter groups. We need to take a view on how many members should be in each group.
The review on drug-related problems is perhaps not the first one that we should do—it should be done after we have had a trial run—because it is complex and draws together issues from many different areas of Executive expenditure.
I am thinking about the way in which the Food Standards Agency interprets EU directives more strictly in Scotland than in England; I am sure that that also happens vice versa. As a unionist, I believe that many issues are best dealt with on a union-wide basis.
I am thinking about the way in which the Food Standards Agency interprets EU directives more strictly in Scotland than in England; I am sure that that also happens vice versa. As a unionist, I believe that many issues are best dealt with on a union-wide basis.