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A meeting with the Scottish Executive, to get an overview, was followed by what in European terms might be called the stakeholders meeting in Stirling, where we tried to get as many of the different organisations together as possible.
I accept the basic proposition that we should move to appoint an adviser, but whomever we appoint must take on the task of getting out there and speaking to the consumers of advice to get both sides of the story on the delivery of business advice services.
The only point that I will make in that regard is that, if we ask a silly question, we get a silly answer; therefore, if we ask for a social inquiry report in a murder case, we should not be surprised if we get a silly response.
I am not convinced by the argument that the extra coverage that we get in the lunch-time news bulletins—which is mainly of party leaders—is enough to compensate for that loss.
I should say that this argument is not only about the south-east of Glasgow: residents in the Southern general catchment area would get to the Cowglen site more quickly than they would get to the Southern general site.
Given how worried patients who might have cancer are, does the minister have any idea how long it will take to get waiting times down to an acceptable level?
Everyone in Scotland needs to know that the direct implication of electing the Tories in the general election would be that those who can afford to pay would get a subsidy and those who cannot afford to pay would get less.