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We recognise that there are constraints on parliamentary time and we welcome the introduction of a wider nature conservation bill in March, which will afford an opportunity to examine the issue.
The number of dentists in Scotland rose from 2,003 in March 1999 to 2,112 in March 2000. However, we have to continue to invest and develop.I will not cover the issue of fluoridation in detail today, as that would not do justice to the subject.
In the spirit of consensus, I will go along with the proposal, but the European Commission produced this green paper on 8 March 2006 and it is totally unrealistic to ask people to make worthwhile responses on such a timescale.
I invite the Auditor General for Scotland to brief the committee on his report "Implementing the NHS consultant contract in Scotland". My report was published on 9 March. The new consultant contract was introduced in April 2004 as part of United Kingdom-wide pay reforms across the national heath service.
In your oral evidence to the committee on 14 March, minister, I think that you stated that you would consider the improvements that might be made to railway journey times.
The interim report that is before the committee is the product of our review to date, which began at the end of March. We looked at several jurisdictions across Europe, North America and Australasia, and the interim report is indicative of some of the jurisdictions that we looked at.
We will get two papers—a trends paper at next week's meeting and a review of the budget strategy, I hope, on 23 March, which should be helpful.There was a general view that we need to focus on getting evidence, and the kinds of witnesses that were being suggested were acceptable to the committee.