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In relation to Adam Ingram's first point, the guidance from the Committee on Safety of Medicines is clear on people who are under 18 and it will be followed.
For the moment, however, I think it best that we follow previous procedures until we are more comfortable with how things progress.Robin Harper is not here yet, so we shall keep item 2 in abeyance until such time as he is able to attend.
Item 8 is consideration of witness expenses. Again following our usual practice, I ask that we discuss that in private, as it concerns expenses for individual witnesses, which it is not appropriate to discuss in public.
Councils that are not spending this money we have given them directly on older people should be doing so; if they do not, we will follow the procedures that are available.
I made that clear before the journalist wrote the story and all the nonsense that followed from it. The article is bad reporting and is bad for the Scottish people.
That might be a good reason for allowing them to substitute for one another because, if you follow that argument through, they are not of the same ilk.
I do not expect the minister to be able to tell me now, but it would be interesting to know how many of the relocated posts involved relocating people—that is, a human being moving to another location to follow their job—and how many jobs were filled locally.