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I am pleased to say that one of the advantages of the SMC process is that the SMC can proactively take the initiative and approach pharmaceutical companies near the time of the licensing of their medicines to confirm the submission date. I can tell the member that the SMC is in touch with Bristol-Myers Squibb regarding a submission to the SMC for that parti...
What progress is being made on that and what is the target date to complete the reduction? Not only can I tell Murdo Fraser about the progress that is being made; the progress was published just a couple of weeks ago.
I think that, in the reply that the Government provided to the Presiding Officer, it commented on unawareness of the directive’s expected date. However, in principle, directives are tracked.
Although the reputation of our financial services industry has been hit hard, criticism has focused primarily on the banking sector. However, Scotland's financial industry is about much more than banks.
As you know, garages and petrol stations are often the hub of small villages, and they are about not just fuel but services, retail and even banking. Will you look into the near future and paint a picture of what Scotland might look like?
In the forthcoming meetings that we are arranging with UK ministers, it will be on our agenda to persuade them that the regulatory agencies—under the new regime that was announced by the chancellor last week, I think that it will be the Bank of England rather than the FSA—should give us that information.
The cod disappeared from the Grand Banks a decade ago and, despite every effort that the Canadians have made, the cod simply have not come back—they have gone elsewhere.